A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Tag: Douglas Adams
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
It?s not the fall that kills you; it?s the sudden stop at the end.
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes.
There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(…); the other was the fact that the century would end.