Quote by Douglas Adams
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something

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

Other quotes by Douglas Adams

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the Universe and move bits of it about. – Douglas Adams

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Internet
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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. – Douglas Adams

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Dreams
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. – Douglas Adams

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Dreams
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design
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Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over. – B. J. Novak

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design

Ive never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they dont like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century. – Tim Gunn

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design

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake. – Junius

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design

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet. – Mike Fitzpatrick

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design

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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. – Paul Eldridge

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An author plants the alphabet — and harvests flowers, nourishment, and weeds. – Terri Guillemets

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Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production. – Ralph Merkle

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On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really. – Anthony Daniels

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