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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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001

Topics

Mistake People Design Trying Fools

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

Fire Discovery Civilization Wheel

Making a pilot is never a seamless process. If it is, it usually tanks.

Process Pilot Never Tanks Making

It was a long, difficult summer of 2004. That was a leap year, so several things happened - the Olympics and presidential election. And right in the middle of the election campaign - and I don't think this was an accident - the 9/11 Commission delivers its report.

Think Year Long Election Summer

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

End Find Try Difficulty Greatest

Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture.

Business Music History Culture Lost

Pitching is a priority.

Pitching Priority

I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.

Daily I Am Me Poverty Measure Meet

Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other side of the line, the Soviet forces also face east to prevent their people from leaving.

Today People Face Leaving Possible

A family film is a very particular and explicit form. Family films typically include adult principles that are moral, but they should be as intelligent, funny, and intriguing as any other film.

Family Funny Moral Principles Film

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

Chester Bennington

Choose Drunk Person Now Want Sober

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Arnold H. Glasow

Friendship Friend True Friend You

I think America has always been polarized.

Think America Always Been I Think

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