Errors Quotes

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

He’s marked his entrance with an error of some momentum

Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.

No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the “margin of safety” – never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be – can you minimize your odds of error.

A column about errors will contain errors.

It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.