Errors Quotes - Page 33

• Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

  Edward Gibbon

  Useless, Repentance, Irreparable

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life.  She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened.  As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine.  But we human beings are not like dogs.  We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble.  If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

  Joko Beck

  Dog, Thinking, Blessing

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• It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.

  A.J. Ayer

  Believe, Reality, Desire

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• Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone.

  Erwin Rommel

  Training, Paper, Stones

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• High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many things. It has no margin for error and less margin for additional risk.

  Franco Modigliani

  Safety, Risk, Management

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• The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teamwork, Communication, Risk

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

  George Crabbe

  Strength, Strong, Anger

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.52

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• Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better.

  Steve McConnell

  Code Quality, Simplicity, Trying

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.501, Pearson Education

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• We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, War, Long

  Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.240, Stackpole Books

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• We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

  George Washington

  Ocean, Past, Men

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson (1781). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.378

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• Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

  Austin O'Malley

  Fall, Knowledge, Men

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• Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.

  James M. Barrie

  Pain, Memories, Humility

  "The Little Minister". Book by James M. Barrie, 1891.

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• Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

  Austin O'Malley

  Life, Truth, Cellars

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• There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Triumph, Joining

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.27

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• To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Truth, Path, Enough

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.119, Hackett Publishing

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• If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

  Bill Gosper

  Pigs, Independence, Mind

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• The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day.

  Martin Luther

  Book, Men, Doctors

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!

  John Calvin

  Men, Decision, Church

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.354, Oxford University Press

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• I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Law, People, Desire

  Eighth State of the Union Address, en.wikisource.org. December 05, 1876.

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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

  Thinking, Voice, Needs

  "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.

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• I take it that the highest proof of Christ's power is not that He offers salvation, not that He bids you take it if you will, but that when you reject it, when you hate it, when you despise it, He has a power whereby he can change your mind, make you think differently from your former thoughts, and turn you from the error of your ways.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hate, Thinking, Make You Think

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• There are very few errors and false doctrines of which the beginning may not be traced up to unsound views about the corruption of human nature. Wrong views of the disease will always bring with them wrong views of the remedy. Wrong views of the corruption of human nature will always carry with them wrong views of the grand antidote and cure of that corruption.

  J. C. Ryle

  Views, Doctrine, May

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• Those who confine God's love exclusively to the elect appear to me to take a narrow and contracted view of God's character and attributes....I have long come to the conclusion that men may be
  more systematic in their statements than the Bible, and may be led into grave error by idolatrous veneration of a system

  J. C. Ryle

  Character, Men, Views

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• Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

  Thomas Merton

  Tree, Giants, Grain

  Thomas Merton (1993). “The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers”, p.293, Macmillan

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• The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

  Lucian Leape

  Mistake, Punishment, Medicine

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