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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Every time an engineer designs something that is foolproof, the universe will design a bigger fool."

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or, as has been my experience:

"Every time an engineer designs something that's foolproof, it's destined to prove him a fool in the end."

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

Urgh, when you forgot to check the fool-performance charateristic curve on the datasheet and it was on a log scale.