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Dizzy Dee

Clever Thoughts

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. (”Dr Who”)

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett)

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. (Bill Gates)

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. (Henry Ford)

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong. (Richard Feynman)

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. (Thomas Edison)

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. (Douglas Adams)

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place. (Gordon Bell)

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected. (Norman Augustine)

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4 Comments so far

  1. Beth June 28th, 2008 6:45 pm

    Those are clever thoughts.

  2. Chris M June 29th, 2008 10:25 pm

    Love them!

  3. G'Momma July 9th, 2008 3:38 pm

    Wonderful, I love them.

  4. John July 20th, 2008 7:41 am

    “It’s better to try and fail, than fail to try.”

    -Richard Nixon

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