Human Error Quotes

• Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Procrastination, Form, Dangerous

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2016

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  Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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

  Donald Berwick

  Errors, Design, Facts

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• At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer.

  Tom Gilb

  Learning, Errors, Two

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• Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

  Kenneth Appel

  Science, Errors, Machines

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• All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

  Franz Kafka

  Patience, Errors, Issues

  Franz Kafka (1994). “The collected aphorisms”

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• One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

  Paul Nitze

  Errors, Achievement, Trying

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• With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.

  Isaac Asimov

  Jobs, Errors, People

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• The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

  Voltaire

  Errors, Opinion, Humans

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.3782, Delphi Classics

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• Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

  George Eliot

  Errors, Form, Humans

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• Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the equipment has contributed significantly to the problems. The design team or installers did not pay sufficient attention to the needs of those who would be using the equipment, so confusion or error was almost unavoidable.

  Donald A. Norman

  Team, Errors, Confusion

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman. Introduction to the 2002 Edition, p. ix, 2002.

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• People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.

  Paul Westerberg

  Errors, Swings, Roots

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• The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

  Rene Descartes

  Education, Teacher, Errors

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• I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

  Agatha Christie

  Technology, Errors, Trying

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Hallowe'en party”, Pocket

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• Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.

  Alveda King

  Errors, Racism, Abortion

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• The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Errors, Aerospace, Safety

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• It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

  Heather Mills

  Mother, Errors, Legs

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• While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate to call myself a victim because I strongly believe one should take responsibility for their actions.

  Paula Broadwell

  Mistake, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I like to say I don't have a fear of heights. I have a fear of human error. I'm very concerned about stupidity.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Errors, Stupidity, Height

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

  Florence King

  Dream, Mistake, Native American

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.108, Macmillan

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• Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Fear, Men, Errors

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• I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.

  Norman Lamm

  Moving, Errors, Government

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• With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.

  Will Self

  Errors, Anxiety, Events

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• A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme volatility in a complex, unpredictable and rapidly changing world.

  Seth Klarman

  Errors, Safety, Luck

  "Here's an explanation of Ben Graham's concept of 'margin of safety'". www.businessinsider.com. February 10, 2016.

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• Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe, and all things contained in the heaven, the sea, and the earth, that they might be consecrated as God in opposition to God." All things, therefore, does human error worship, except the Founder of all himself. The images of those things are idols; the consecration of the images is idolatry.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Errors, Idols

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