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“The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.”

Thinking Reason Problem Language Imagine Dangerous Solutions Program Connections Errors Features Programmers Eliminating Problems And Solutions

Book:The C++ Programming Language

Source: The C++ Programming Language

“Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind.”

Want Practice Mankind Dangerous Errors Application Obstinate Adherence

Book:A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

“One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.”

Source: Image and Imagination

“We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is more likely that the source of error is, as the advertisement says, a reflection of the fact that "its dangerous to trifle with Mother Nature".”

Doe Facts Mother Dangerous Source Reflection Responsible Errors Ethical Trifles Mother Nature Advertisements Lapses

Author:Lewis M. Branscomb

“The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.”

Mind Heart Stills Dangerous Errors Intellect

Book:Letters of Eugénie de Guérin

Source: Letters of Eugénie de Guérin

“It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.”

Thinking Heart Christian Dangerous Praying Errors

Book:Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible

Source: Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible

“If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War period and make enemies of God and the world; it must recognize the most dangerous enemy and strike at him with all its concentrated power. And if this victory is obtained through sacrifices elsewhere, the coming generations of our people will not condemn us.”

People Ifs World Want War Ends States Fall Nations Enemy Generations Sacrifice Dangerous Victory Periods Europe Errors Affair Strikes Elsewhere Extermination

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”

Philosophy Science Religion Dangerous Philosophical Errors Philosopher Ridiculous Philosophy Of Religion Religious Philosophy Philosophy And Religion

Author:David Hume

“The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.”

Wells May Two Lying Sides Path Dangerous Errors Destructive Precipice Truth Of God Narrow Path

Author:Arthur W. Pink

“The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.”

Dangerous Errors Tendencies

Book:Why Don't We Learn from History?

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.”

Causes Dangerous Consequence Errors

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Finally, this case should serve as yet another reminder of just how dangerous and volatile these police home invasions really are, and why we should stop using them to serve search warrants for nonviolent crimes. They offer no margin for error.”

Should Home Cases Dangerous Crime Offers Police Errors Reminders Invasion Margins Warrants

Author:Radley Balko