“For the Members of the Assembly having before their eys so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of mankind has so long wandred, because they rely'd upon the strength of humane Reason alone, have begun anew to correct all Hypotheses by sense, as Seamen do their…”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to subordinates constant errors will occur. I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordin…”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org
“The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angles of personality, the riddle of a soul.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com