Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Error

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
- Amos Tversky, 1937 - 1996

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
- Vilfredo Pareto, 1848 - 1923

Good nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism

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