A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce
It is not the function of the government to stop the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. Justice Robert Jackson, judge at Nuremberg trial
There’s a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality … I found a flaw … in the model I perceive. The Flaw, Greenspan, 2011
When they start to treat a good as a financial asset, as people started to do with houses in the boom, that’s when you get into a very unstable market. ibid. George Cooper, fund manager
The fatal flaw was the assumption that real estate values would always go up. ibid. Nell Minow, corporate watchdog
It must have been my humanity reasserting itself. I will correct the error. Star Trek: Voyager s4e5: Revulsion, Seven of Nine to Ensign Kim