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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof [is] to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Chapter 12, Page 135
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Chapter 12
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Chapter 1
Protect me from knowing what I don`t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don`t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.
Page 111
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it`s pretty damn complicated in the first place.