“There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.”
Edward Teller (1908–2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
As quoted in "Nuclear Reactions", by Joel Davis in Omni (May 1988)
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
— Douglas Adams, book Mostly Harmless
Source: Mostly Harmless
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