Quotes by Errors Error increases with distance. It's true with bowling, and it's true with families. Steve Farrar bowlingdistanceerrors 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-qualitysimplicityerrors The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculation of principal components and other quality control defects. Steve McIntyre dataerrorspast It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free. Steve McConnell codersfunny-inspirationalerrors Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds. Steve Tisch judgmenterrorsthinking How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error. Steven Johnson disciplineerrorsintelligent Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events. Steven Popkes cancerentrepreneurerrors Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees. Stonewall Jackson errorsriverswar No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error. Stuart Sherman errorsrootslatin Some people have set up sort of "gotcha" algorithms that apparently crawl through psychology articles and look for fraudulent p-values [a measure of the likelihood that experimental results weren't a fluke]. But they're including rounding errors that don't change the significance levels of the results, and they're doing it anonymously. Susan Fiske psychologyerrorspeople the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures. Susanna Rowson forgivenesserrorsheart The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish. To suppose that the "material mode" is a primitive and groping attempt at physical conception is a fatal error in epistemology. Susanne Katherina Langer errorsrealworld You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time. Suzanne Farrell trial-and-errorerrorsgiving Love dies because its birth was an error. Susan Sontag divorcebirtherrors The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go? Sybille Bedford compasserrorssociety Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. Sydney Smith allianceserrorsmistake One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth. Swami Vivekananda hinduismerrorsdifferences The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. Tahar Ben Jelloun umpireserrorsmistake What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us? T. S. Eliot errorsjudgingself The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. Swami Vivekananda errorssinpower«7576777879808182838485»
