Top 30 Quotes About Making Errors
#1. My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.
Donald Knuth
#2. There's nothing bad; there's just making errors on the way back Home.
Lester Levenson
#3. Learning means making errors. Those who are learning spiritually make errors just the way anyone does when he is growing.
Harold Klemp
#4. A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.
William Shockley
#5. Change the attitude toward errors. Think of an object's user as attempting to do a task, getting there by imperfect approximations. Don't think of the user as making errors; think of the actions as approximations of what is desired.
Donald A. Norman
#6. It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.
Steve Maraboli
#7. My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
Michel De Montaigne
#8. Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.
Virginia Postrel
#9. Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
Barry Ritholtz
#10. Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
Colin Firth
#11. I take the point of view that missing an important trade is a much more serious error than making a bad trade.
William Eckhardt
#12. The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes,
Lucian Leape
#13. Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.
Jakob Nielsen
#14. Failure is your inability to recognize that you have made the same mistakes again. Making a mistake is normal; it turns abnormal when it's not recognized!
Israelmore Ayivor
#15. I got better the way everyone gets better: by trial and error and error and error, by fumbling around and making mistakes but not giving up and working incredibly hard at it every day and eventually, through a painful and laborious process of eliminating every wrong turn, finding my way.
Mishka
#16. Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#17. In all of history, we have found just one cure for error - a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.
David Brin
#18. Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
#19. If your decision-making is improved on the ground, certainly you'll be less likely to make the kind of errors that will linger with you the rest of your life and lead to regret, remorse, and a whole cascade of psychological dysfunction.
Amishi Jha
#20. I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.
Jonas Salk
#21. But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.
Robert Solow
#22. We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
Barry Ritholtz
#23. Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
Andrew Mason
#24. The people who come to work deserve to be paid properly, and there's no excuse. I could understand someone making a small error, but sometimes people make systematic errors, and that's not right.
Fred DeLuca
#25. Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.
Diana Trilling
#27. Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.
Jessica Livingston
#28. Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.
Jonas Salk
#29. If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?
Troy Glaus
#30. Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children.
Noreena Hertz
