Isaac Asimov Quotes

Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.

We all make mistakes. It's human. Just learn from them. Repeating them and being aware of it is the dangerous bit.

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

This acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well...

Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

You'll always make mistakes and you'll miss the mark sometimes. That's inevitably going to happen, because the best people in the world make mistakes - even people who are brilliant.

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

I have always tried to do my job in a way that I have people give me different points of view.

I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.

But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.

The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.

I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I'm human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation.

No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.

Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.