Aphorism: When things go wrong

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

 

-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

When it comes to software and the word impossible, I do not think it means what you think it means.

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