Error Management Quotes

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

Every time someone makes a mistake, and mistakes are made in this business, careers are ruined.

People and companies make mistakes. I guarantee we'll make a mistake next quarter. So what? Businesses make mistakes. Hopefully smaller, and fewer.

Governments and local administrative bodies decide to inform the public of their mistakes only when losses have become disproportionately great.

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.

Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.

The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

Failure is a resource that can be managed.

For the robust, an error is information.

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

Football is a game of errors. You want to make your rivals commit them and to avoid them yourself.

In my career, I have learnt how to handle failures in a matured manner.

We're not perfect every time. We make mistakes just like everybody else. But, we stay on top of it, and we stay with it, and we make sure we get it right.

It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

The worst crime of all would be that a mistake happens and no one talks about it or learns from it. So, as unsettling as it is to think about, these mistakes, complications and unexpected outcomes get discussed openly, and everyone hopefully gains something from it.

A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.

When someone makes a mistake, it's right to underline this type of situation and find the best solution to avoid the same mistake in the future.

It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.