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"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."
Charles Babbage
"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."
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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
"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."
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"I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error."
Rene Descartes
"I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error."
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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
"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."
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"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."
Alan Perlis
"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."
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"It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!"
Anna Garlin Spencer
"It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!"
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"I did it the stupid way, through trial and error."
Jake Roberts
"I did it the stupid way, through trial and error."
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"An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy."
Steven Weinberg
"An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy."
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"How is an error possible in mathematics?"
Henri Poincare
"How is an error possible in mathematics?"
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"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."
Moliere
"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."
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"Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before."
Arthur Guiterman
"Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before."
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"To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement."
Donald Norman
"To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement."
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"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
Thomas Huxley
"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
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"The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill."
David Keene
"The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill."
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"We are built to make mistakes, coded for error."
Lewis Thomas
"We are built to make mistakes, coded for error."
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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
"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."
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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
"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."
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"Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it."
Levon Helm
"Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it."
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"Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way."
Cecilia Bartoli
"Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way."
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"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."
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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
"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."
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"The way to succeed is to double your error rate."
Thomas J. Watson
"The way to succeed is to double your error rate."
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"We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human."
Michael Burgess
"We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human."
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"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man."
J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man."
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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
"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."
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"The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors."
Trofim Lysenko
"The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors."
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"My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet."
Ayrton Senna
"My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet."
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"If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human."
William Mulholland
"If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human."
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"A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter."
Henri Poincare
"A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter."
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"I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway."
Rick Riordan
"I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway."
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"The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss."
Idries Shah
"The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss."
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"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."
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"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
Thomas Huxley
"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
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"And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully."
Jane Austen
"And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully."
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"One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find."
Criss Jami
"One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find."
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