On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 07:32:53PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 19:41 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> The trouble is, as I like to quote here, when making things idiot proof,
> you can't, as nature will always build a better idiot.
If you're aiming for the Douglas Adams quotation, it's "A common mistake
people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to
underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." :)
No, I was thinking of this one--from FreeBSD's fortune. (Probably
Linux's fortune as well, but I only have it on FreeBSD.)
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying
to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
-- Rich Cook
--
Scott Robbins
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