Human Error Quotes

Our intelligence is always imperfect.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

To err is human, to persist is diabolical.

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics; they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But what you must never forget is that every one of those figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

There will always be mistakes, all teams make mistakes.

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

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.

No, I'm not perfect in any way.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Mistakes are normal; everyone makes them.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.