#stake

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. ↗

— Dale Turner

#error #ever #future #learn #learned

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#capital #data #mistake

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#corrects #his #mistakes #morrow #never

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#cause #due #either #fail #i

I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#beautiful #because #bother #come #either

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? ↗

— Jon Voight

#civil war #country #creating #now #obama

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes. ↗

— David Fincher

#characters #i #learn #like #mistakes

I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger. ↗

— Jeff Zucker

#i #i think #know #leader #linger

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#conflict #country #gulf #gulf war #korean

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#between #body #communication #country #dwarfish