Fool Proof Quotes

• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

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• Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

  Stephen Hawking

  Fool, Proof

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• Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

  Albert Einstein

  Winning, Men, Thinking

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  Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

  Edward Teller

  Science, Defeat, Enough

  "Nuclear Reactions". "Omni" Magazine, May 1988.

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• I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

  Alan Coren

  Funny Inspirational, Humorous, Fools Day

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• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

  Virginia Foxx

  Stupid, Silly, Fools Day

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 6, 2009.

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• Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

  Gene Brown

  Fools Day, April, Pranks

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• You certainly can't be a perfect person, coming up with the 100% correct solution, all the time. It's just a combination of a chain of good decisions that comes up with a successful product or a successful film. That's what you hope for. But, nothing about the system is 100% fool proof.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Successful, Perfect, Decision

  Source: collider.com

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• A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Block, Elephants, Looks

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• Today, John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out the $500B deficit. John Kerry has a plan, he's going to put it on his wife's Gold Card.

  Craig Kilborn

  Wife, Gold, Cards

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• A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

  Leonard Maltin

  Christmas, Stories, Carols

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• There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is a completely unscientific Utopian dream, a childish bug-a-boo. Nature has introduced a few fool-proof devices into the great majority of elements that constitute the bulk of the world, and they have no energy to give up in the process of disintegration.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Running, Dream, Giving Up

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• A closed mouth gathers no foot.
  A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
  A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

  David Gries

  Block, Tired, Thinking

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