823 Quotes About Errors


  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact. ... Besides, almost all dogs don't talk. Ones that do are merely a statistical error, and can therefore be ignored.

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  • Author Theodore Pappas
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    Virtually everything in that story was misleading and wrong. It was so full of errors that it's completely without merit.

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  • Author Thomas Paine
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    We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

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  • Author Tim Powers
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    Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

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  • Author Tom Peterson
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    We made all sorts of errors in the first game. We were nervous. We just settled down after that and played the way we can. There wasn't anything magical about it, we just played better.

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