Quotes with errors

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  • Bjarne Stroustrup The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
    The C++ Programming Language p.9
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein The economic analysis of law has had many good ideas. It's had one great idea -like, world-transforming idea, I think. And the idea is, when you're stuck, minimize the sum of the costs of decisions and the costs of errors.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing, when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
    On liberty (1859)
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Ernest Dimnet The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Voltaire The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Charles Péguy The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
    Charles Péguy
    French writer and poet (1873 - 1914)
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  • Thomas Paine The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished - it is no longer secure in its instincts.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Carine Roitfeld The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • George Brandes The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Winston Churchill There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Boris Yeltsin There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Carl Sagan They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Edmund Burke They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Henry Thomas Buckle Those minute critics who seem to think that when they detect the occasional errors of a great man, they in some degree reduce him to their own level.
    History of civilization II, 314
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
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  • Plutarch 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.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Voltaire We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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