Subject: Problems » Mistakes

Experience is what makes you pause briefly before going ahead and making the same mistake.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

(1772 – 1851) American Presbyterian theologian & professor

In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.

To err is human… and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

All great discoveries are made by mistake

Corollary: The greater the funding, the longer it takes to make the mistake.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

I ain’t got no respect for no religion where the head guy claims he can’t make no mistakes. Like he’s, waddya call, inflammable.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

There is always one more bug.

Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress

Discussion: A method of confirming others in their errors.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

To err is human – to blame it on someone else is even more human.