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Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.

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• As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Human
  • Accidents
  • Genetic

• We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Country
  • Children
  • Gun

• I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Wish
  • Accidents
  • Reduction

• I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Band
  • Happened
  • Accidents

• If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • Accidents

• The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • May
  • Humans
  • Plans

• We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Happy
  • Mistakes
  • Accidents

• The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Requirements
  • Vegetarians
  • Cucumber

• My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents.

  

  Jim Hodges
  • People
  • Today
  • Concern

• Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

  

  John Gardner
  • May
  • Poor
  • Accidents

• The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Tragedy
  • Accidents

• Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

  

  William Morris
  • People
  • Art
  • Accidents

• Promptly improve your accidents.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Improve
  • Accidents

• There are no accidents; there is only some purpose that we haven’t yet understood.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Purpose
  • Understand
  • Accidents

• Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

  

  Sarah Kane
  • Choices
  • Body
  • Dancing

• In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

  

  Scott Glenn
  • Life
  • Fate
  • Happened

• I don’t know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands the light of facts. Armed citizens deter far more crimes than the police, and far more lives are saved by the intended victim being armed than are lost in firearm accidents.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • Citizens
  • Victim
  • Population

• It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.

  

  Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher
  • Scary
  • Scene
  • Accidents

• Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.

  

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • Society
  • Law
  • Justice

• I just drove. I could have driven forever. I don’t know how I managed to find my spot in the desert, but I found it. It was as if I had a compass hidden somewhere inside me. One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Desert
  • Driven
  • Instincts

• Some of the biggest challenges faced by computers and human minds alike: how to manage finite space, finite time, limited attention, unknown unknowns, incomplete information, and an unforeseeable future; how to do so with grace and confidence; and how to do so in a community with others who are all simultaneously trying to do the same.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Future
  • Challenges
  • Computers

• A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

  

  Euripides
  • Beginning
  • Ending
  • Follows

• Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.

  

  Nancy Leveson
  • Accidents
  • Requirements
  • Caused