"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."

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"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."

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"There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance."

George Gillespie, Scottish Theologian

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Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."

Moliere, French Playwright

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"Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

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"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors."

Norman Vincent Peale, American Clergyman

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"There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it."

Lakhdar Brahimi, Algerian Public Servant

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"TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file."

Jon Postel, American Scientist

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