Edwin Catmull Quotes

I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.

I have been wrong enough times to know that it is always a possibility.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

The thing I always tell my audiences all the time is that I'm just two steps ahead of you on a good day. And I might be two steps behind you on a bad day.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

I know I'm not perfect.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping me sane, and I also believe that it's keeping me human. In fact, I'm 85 percent sure of it.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

Maybe I think too much.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.

No one is always right.