| "Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society." »Edward C. Banfield |
| "The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one." »H.L. Mencken |
| "From error to error, one discovers the entire truth." »Sigmund Freud |
| "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." »John Gall |
| "To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor." »Unknown |
| "A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term." »Robert Reich |
| "Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive." »Dr. Jonas Salk |
| "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society." »Doris Lessing |
| "What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis." »W. Edwards Deming |
| ""The pursuit of happiness" is an American myth. The ideologies and governments of this century that promised happiness, have left people with more material possessions, but less psychological well-being. Many of the citizens are emotionally bankrupt and unhappy. The demands of life in our current socioeconomic system require that we keep running and running with little or no breaks....Like their parents, most of the young professionals will drift through life racing for the "American Dream", going through very expensive trial-and-error lessons and struggling to achieve happiness and fulfillment." »Med Yones |
| "If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth." »Hans Reichenbach |
| "The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically." »Barbra Streisand |
| "It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment." »W. Edwards Deming |
| "Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals." »Vaclav Havel |
| "error is discipline through which we advance." »William Ellery Channing |
| "Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error." »Johann von Goethe |
| "An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "It's a basehit on the error by Roberts." »Jerry Coleman |
| "Delay is preferable to error." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." »Carl Gustav Jung |
| "The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error." »Seneca |
| "The way to succeed is to double your error rate." »Thomas John Watson, Sr. |
| "Love truth, and pardon error." »Voltaire |
| "If ever an error had 'F' written on it, that grounder did." »Jerry Coleman |
| "Love truth, but pardon error." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Love truth but pardon error." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part." »Richard Phillips Feynman |
| "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." »Orlando A. Battista |
| "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
