Jasper Fforde Quotes

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

No man is infallible.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

Every form of government has its advantages and inconveniences inseparable from it. It would be in vain to seek for a government absolutely perfect; and however perfect it might appear in speculation, yet it is certain, that in practice, and under the administration of men, it will ever be attended with some particular defects.

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

We do have the best justice system in the world—in theory. The problem is that it is run by human beings. Human beings make mistakes

I don't think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line.

I think it is asking a lot for regulators to be perfect - because they won't be.

People talk about drones like they're a bad thing, but they forget there are people behind them. It's a lot easier to blame the technology than to accept that people are a cancer on this planet.

I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.

There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.

Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

Don't think that I'm - I'd- I'm infallible. Will always make mistakes.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian sense. In practice, and in fact, mathematics is not exempt from that liability to error that affects everything that man does.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.