193 Error Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Fall Makes Question Error Bumped Child Hits Wheel Break Whether Chair

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. George Ryan

Death Think Penalty Support Also Death Penalty Error Margin

The Matrix itself is not some external evil, but rather an outcome of our own error, our karmic payoff of past actions. Not merely illusion, it is an allusion to a founding myth of our culture. Gregory Benford

Culture Illusion Evil Myth Past Own Our Outcome Some Rather Merely Error Matrix Itself Karmic Payoff Actions Founding External

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's. Heather Mills

Mother Took Take Error Leg Human Human Error

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth Dangerous Degree More Proportion Contains Error Which

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter. Henri Poincare

Will Enormous Latter Small Error Former Produce

How is an error possible in mathematics? Henri Poincare

Mathematics Possible How Error

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me. Ian Mcewan

Forgiveness Me Regret Remove Important Frame Our Correct Possible Religious Something Outside How Error Manage Any Done Whether Which Interested Theme Us Even Ever Conscience Extent

A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error. Isoroku Yamamoto

Faith Time Man Sometimes Purpose He Put Puts Himself Always Real His Falls Error Gods From Time To Time Refuses Even

Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time. James Gleick

Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process. James Redfield

Trial Trial And Error Intuitive Ideas Most Error Process

For people involved in pre-meditated crimes, whether it is terrorism or robbery or something else, their use of technology means that they leave a digital trail, and the room for error goes up dramatically. In the future, it will be easier for violent people to make mistakes and get caught before they commit their crimes. Jared Cohen

Future Terrorism Technology People Digital Will Mistakes Before Else Crimes Dramatically Easier Something Something Else Robbery Involved Make Caught Leave Error Trail Up Get Commit Goes Whether Room Means Use Violent

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation. Jay Samit

Work Failure You Business Innovation World Challenge Will First Trial Trial And Error Punitive No-One Towards Fails Genesis Attitudes Most Around Greatest Greatest Challenge Error Nations Centers Again Your Many

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. Jean Rostand

Truth Future Day Science Perspective One Day Intuition Some Rather Prophetic Through Never Misunderstanding Scientist His Error Times Than Current Any Often Gross Appear

I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer. Jennifer Egan

Think Writer Glamour Disastrous Error Literary Card Playing

Ultimately, we've got to make sure our players understand that the margin for error is very small against these top teams in the world, and we've been punished several times for that. Jill Ellis

World Our Top Several Punished Small Make Sure Understand Got Been Ultimately Error Very Times Against Teams Margin Players

It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error. John Scofield

Home Me People Guitar Sit Trial Trial And Error One Thing Write Performed Piece Another Always Error Quite Your Thing Four

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists. John Sebastian

You Own Ownership Later Bit Kind Guys Part Like Know Most Real Era Error Yes Manage Just Artists Little Little Bit Businessmen Publishing Things Extent Started

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