Error Correcting Code

Famous quotes containing the words error, correcting and/or code:

    “Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “Faultless honesty is a sine qua non of business life. Not alone the honesty according to the moral code and the Bible. When I speak of honesty I refer to the small, hidden, evasive meannesses of our natures. I speak of the honesty of ourselves to ourselves.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)