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Hi Neville, :waving_hand:

that´s nothing to worry about. It wasn´t a serious mistake at all.

And your expert and professional input into a vast array of topics makes up for your “blunder” a thousand times… :+1: .

Cheers from Rosika :slightly_smiling_face:

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Alexander Pope, poet of the Enlightenment, lent a famous line from his 1711 treatise An Essay on Criticism to the US Institutes of Medicine’s report on patient safety:

To Err is Human….. but to really screw it up needs a computer.

Question is where did he get a computer in 1711 ?

Back to the future part foss.

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Hi Paul,

Sorry no time machine. I check both the internet and AI for the saying and came up with this.

From Co-pilot;
“Original proverb: The phrase builds on Alexander Pope’s famous line from An Essay on Criticism (1711): “To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
The internet seems to back this up.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/05/26/computer-error/

The modern saying seems to come from Paul R. Ehrlich. Again from the web.
Again AI agreed and said it “first appeared in print in the Farmer’s Almanac in 1978” Although the saying is attribute to Paul Ehrlich, AI said “its exact origin remains uncertain”.

Side note.
I did not add the boldness.
It was much easier using AI then the internet for the information.
AI gave way more info then what was asked for and not really needed.
Weather the source is the web or AI consider if the info sounds correct and it does not hurt to verify the information.

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No, I did not. If a notice was sent, I did not see it.
If you want to (as a control test), you can change this posting and I will look for a notice.

I removed the line… Neville

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Thats easy look below

See its not here…. its behind you. Pantomine time. Ha ha ha

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Hi Howard,
I removed the line… did you get a notice?

Sourav sometimes edits my topic title or category … I get a notice then

Regards
Neville

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Yes, saw were you had made the change. :+1:
The first time, I did not know what Foss was trying to tell me.

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Thanks Howard.
I would have been alarmed if you had not received a notice… that would have meant I could change your post without you ever knowing !

I have just posted the Christmas message topic. Your help has been acknowledged.

Regards
Neville

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