The fifth racer out of the gate in the final run, Ligety didn't make a single mistake on a course he knows so well.
A single mistake, a bit of poor luck, or a neighbour's envy can unravel a lifetime of hard work and planning.
Masahiro Fujita, who is designing sloppy chips at the University of Tokyo, notes that a single mistake at the beginning of a sequence of instructions can propagate through subsequent calculations and completely mess up the behaviour of a computer or robot.
And we offer opportunity to people who, whether because of a single mistake, a wrongful conviction, or a lifetime of struggle, most desperately need it.
I heard once that in weaving their rugs, the Navajos intentionally make a single mistake, as a gesture of humility.
I painted it in my prison cell in 1988 when I realized I was going to spend the most productive years of my life behind bars because of a single mistake I had made.
Failure in communication as a basis for errors and patient injuries in healthcare was brought into focus by the Institute of Medicine at the end of the 1990s. 1 When things go wrong, it is often a potentially preventable incident, caused by the interaction of several human factors rather than the result of a single mistake by an individual.
The assistant US attorney wrote that the totality of what Glenn did "was not a single mistake, but rather an elaborate pattern of willful and egregious criminal acts spanning several years".
The Heartbleed bug, which rendered hundreds of thousands of websites vulnerable to attacks that could steal passwords or security credentials, came about as a result of a single mistake made by a volunteer coder.
The mouse understands that the clownishly inept cat has the freedom to fail over and over again, during the long course of an inglorious lifetime, while he himself is denied the liberty of a single mistake.
