Small Mistakes Quotes

• The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or spells can lead to completely unforseen behavior: e.g., see the story, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Neither study is easy: "...her [Galinda's] early appetite for sorcery had waned once she'd heard what a grind it was to learn spells and, worse, to understand them." from the book "Wicked" by G. Maguire.

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  Richard E. Pattis

  Mistake   Book   Learning  

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• I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.

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  Dalai Lama

  Mistake   People   Humanity  

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.

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  Christopher Alexander

  Mistake   Simple   Differences  

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• Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

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  Alan S. Kesselheim

  Mistake   Tragedy   Tipping  

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• You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

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  Christopher Hitchens

  Mistake   School   Language  

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

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  Holly Black

  War   Mistake   Tragedy  

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• Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.

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  David Baldacci

  Mistake   Gone   Reputation  

  David Baldacci (2009). “The Simple Truth”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

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  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake   Moving   Knowledge  

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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