cynical folk wisdom

[Garson O'Toole]

The Yale Book of Quotations has this:

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Rick Cook
U.S. science fiction writer, 1944-

Applications programming is a race between software engineers, who
strive to produce idiot-proof programs, and the Universe which strives
to produce bigger idiots.—Software engineers’ saying

So far the Universe is winning. - Applications programmers’ saying

The Wizardry Compiled ch. 6 (1990)
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Dan Goodman <dsgood at iphouse.com> wrote:
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> On 07/13/2012 10:04 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Jonathan Lighter
>> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> "Make it idiot-proof and someone will invent a better idiot."
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>> A variant from the Jesus-v.-Moses subset:
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>> "Jesus Saves. Moses Invests."
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> "But the Mongol hoards."
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