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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

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

How is an error possible in mathematics?

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

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.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

I did it the stupid way, through trial and error.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

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.