"My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes."

-- Donald Knuth

#Mistake Quotes #Errors Quotes #Trying Quotes

“But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop such a thing. If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good to find out what the realities are; that it is good to turn over to mankind at large the greatest possible power to control the world and to deal with it according to its lights and values. Regarding the atomic bomb project.”
“Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.”
“I can't believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it's only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.”
“We frolic while 'tis May.”
“You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.”
“President Bush deliberately did not apologize for things and thatâ€™s because advisers around him, including those there, felt that the press corps would jump on that and down his throat in a way that he couldnâ€™t recover from. So, especially on the war he was very careful on that line.”
“Every day is a fresh beginning; Listen my soul, to the glad refrain, And in spite of old sorrowÂ… and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again.”
“Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”

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