Terry Pratchett Quotes

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

W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Failures happen in any system.

When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.

Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.

Genius is the error in the system.

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

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

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most devoted saint is stained with sin and full of error; the bravest heart among us will fail and break; but Christ is altogether lovely, holy, and unfailing.

Survivors lived with their mistakes.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?

Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.

I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.

Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

I made the wrong mistakes

Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

In financial services, if you want to be the best in the industry, you first have to be the best in risk management and credit quality. It's the foundation for every other measure of success. There's almost no room for error.