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Everything above may be wrong!
Watch for contradictory information (page 37).
I was wondering - I mean - could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you.
A little difference is still different.
a different result requires doing something different.
There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
Sometimes we just get it wrong.
been lowered slightly because
The whole thing confused
Appearances are deceptive.
Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
The absent are always in the wrong
There are things sorry can not fix but to correct the errors made.
The clearest relationships were distorted, the most obvious were forgotten, the trivial and unimportant pushed into the foreground. It must be written again, right from the beginning ...
Things don't always look as they seem.
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages, which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don't see them.
The space between the notes was loaded. Negative space.
Why write wrong if the writing won't right the wrong? (90)
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
That was the strange problem with writing, you had discovered. Meaning never matched the words and words always evaded the thought.
You follow these little discrepancies long enough and they sometimes open up into huge revelations.
Do not be alarmed by the minor inconsistencies in the syntax. They are meant to heighten your level of attention and thereby make you a better programmer.
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Proportion than she
He was disappointed that he'd never quite added up to as much as the results of his own calculations. The trouble was that he'd got his sums all wrong, but she didn't want to be the one to tell him that.
The error never lies with facts but with how they're used.
idiosyncrasy than
There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.
Appearances may be deceiving.
Your bullshit quotient is higher than my husband
Actually everyting is right, even the errors.
The problem is not just the wrong ormistake that you did but the correction,/right you refused to do.
[I]n a question like this truth is only to be had by laying together many varieties of error.
They took the wrong ones! Mistake was made! Everything is unfair! Who do we complain to, in this shitty place? Who is in charge here?]
Misunderstandings arise only in undefined relationships
Things can fool you sometimes.
We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.
Increase could be visible and invisible
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
Could you double-check the envelope?
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
There are no mistakes, I realize - just detours whose significance only become clear when you see the whole picture at once.
Things are not as they appear.
Your perception may not be my reality
Either the present part of the story slowed down a bit and waited for the past part to catch up, or the past part speeded up and overtook the present part. (We
Everything in this book may be wrong.
The difference between old and new money is, after all, purely relative: it just depends on when you start counting.
Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.
Small changes. Big differences
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
I wonder if there have been other errors.
Men lie, women lie, numbers dont
Thiss sentence contains threee errors.
DIFFERENT NOT LESS
Internal age doesn't match external age. - Carol Smith
Yet again I was reminded that the way in which things and events unfold does not always coincide with our expectations. Indeed, this fact of life - that there is often a gap between the way in which we perceive phenomena and the reality of a given situation - is the source of much unhappiness.
Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.
Her calculations were sometimes a little fuzzy, for the same reason that her checkbook sometimes did not balance; Becky Vesey (as she had been known as a child) had never really mastered the multiplication tables and she was inclined to confuse sevens with nines.
People make mistakes.
In other news, a recent report suggests that things may not be as they seem.
There is a point in the imagination of a creative man when the wrong thing is correct almost simply because it is wrong.
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Sometimes a mistake isn't a what. It's a who.
A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.
Do you remember what I forgot?
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
Where did all the money go? The Aam Aadmi wants to know.
Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.
Many a statistic is false on its face. It gets by only because the magic of numbers bring about a suspension of common sense
Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
Where the bedroom is wrong the whole house is wrong.
Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told.
It is important to realise that two conflicting statements can both be equally true depending on the level from which you observe the same situation.
I have made mistakes.
The problem with that analysis is that it is incorrect.
War and peace type products ... cannot be added into a national product total until the differences in the valuation due to differences in the institutional mechanisms that determine their respective market prices are corrected for.
Something Wrong Somewhere
Mistakes were made.
Others were blamed.
Those not present are always wrong.
All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.
Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields.
two wrongs dont make a right
I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
That's another thing about lies: if you convince yourself they're true, they become true. A lie is a discrepancy of belief, not fact.
I'm sure the Bursar would not agree with those figures," said the Senior Wrangler sourly.
"That is so,' said Ponder, "but I'm afraid that is because he regards the decimal point as a nuisance.
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.
Withholding distorts reality.
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.
People lie. Promises are broken. A
Even genius can miscalculate.
If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
Kaylee, you're adding two and two and coming up with seven.
There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.
It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress.