Fool Proof Quotes:

Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Fool Proof, Fool, Proof

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

- Douglas Adams

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

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Fake People, Software Design, Inspirational Design

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

topic: Winning, Men, Thinking, Fool Proof, Bigger And Better

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

topic: Funny, Life, Sarcastic, Speak Less, Speaking Out

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

- Edward Teller

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

topic: Science, Fool, Defeat, Fool Proof, Foolproof

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

- Alan Coren

topic: Humorous, Two, Tests, Pranks, Payroll

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

- Virginia Foxx

topic: Silly, Fool Me Once, Conservative, Stupid Conservative, Pranks

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

- Gene Brown

topic: Fool, Ingenuity, Accounts, Pranks, Fool Proof

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

topic: Successful, Perfect, Decision, Perfect Person, Fool Proof

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

topic: Block, Elephants, Looks, Fool Proof, Sculpting

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

topic: Wife, Gold, Cards, John Kerry, Fool Proof

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

- Leonard Maltin

topic: Christmas, Stories, Fool, Carols, Christmas Carol

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

topic: Running, Dream, Giving Up, Supposition, Disintegration

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

topic: Block, Tired, Thinking, Fool Proof, Sculpting