The two errors are:

Error #1: The word “this” occurs twice.

Error #2: There is only one error, not two.

Thanks to Robert M. Martin, author of the book "There are two errors in the the title of this book."

"There is one thing certain, namely that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain."—Samuel Butler

"I'm a hypocrite; I'm intolerant of intolerance."—anonymous

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."—Albert Einstein

"Nothing is permanent but change."—Heraclitus

"This is the third of four lectures on a rather difficult subject — the theory of quantum electrodynamics —and since there are obviously more people here tonight than there were before, some of you haven't heard the other two lectures and will find this lecture incomprehensible. Those of you who have heard the other two lectures will also find this lecture incomprehensible, but you know that that's all right: as I explained in the first lecture, the way we have to describe Nature is generally incomprehensible to us."— Richard Feynman

“There ain’t no answer. There ain’t going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.”—Gertrude Stein

I am clean in body and mind; I always tell the truth; and I never use fucking profanity.

I am not inflexible, never have been, never will be.

It is considerate to say "Thank you" when people are considerate, but, if this rule were applied consistently, there would be no end to speech.

"In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable. We should have to be able to think what cannot be thought."—Ludwig Wittgenstein

"There are things that we now know; things that we know we now do not know; and things that we do not now know that we now do not know."—Donald Rumsfeld

A friend told me this resume has a lot of informative quotations, like the ones above, interspersed with the personal material, so that I should submit it for publication. The idea of submitting a resume for publication appeared somewhat odd, but I thought about it and soon realized that doing so would create a logical paradox. Let us begin with the assumption that a resume must contain a complete list of one's publications. Then, if such a resume were accepted for publication, it would constitute a new publication that must be listed on the resume. But after listing it, the published version no longer would contain a complete list of one's publications, so the formerly published version would have to be revised to include the listing of the formerly published version on the revised resume. Then, however, the revised resume would have to be revised once again to include the new revised publication. There would be no end to this process of revision and re-publication. In light of this difficulty, I have decided not to submit the resume for publication. On the other hand, I am considering submitting this logical paradox for publication, and then, if I add that publication to the resume ......

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