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[LostMyMind]

Hmm, trying to remember something I heard once, something like "Never claim something is idiot-proof, it's just a challenge to nature to make a bigger idiot." Something like that.

It's a quote from computer science (programming or engineering), I'm sure there are variation of this quote. It might have showed up earlier, possible in physics engineering.

The quote I learned was "When you think you made it idiot-proofed, along will come an bigger idiot." That was the standard response to just about any person saying "This code/device is idiot-proof."

I took great pride in showing people that there is never anything "idiot-proof". If you're in computer science, you really do have to have that switch that turn on during testing. The one labeled, "what is the dumbest thing you can possible throw at this".

I actually had a co-worker (you know the type, the one that thinks he's a genius and in charge). He was sooo proud of his "code" to solve a mathematical problem from an data subset (smaller test data). When I pointed out that it wouldn't work because you can break it by putting anything in that wasn't in the testing data set. He actually said, "Nobody would put in data that wouldn't work." I laugh my ass off.