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

Here’s a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as possible.

The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying after the market has declined substantially and selling after it has had a spectacular rise. But he cannot expect to reduce this principle to a simple and foolproof formula, with profits guaranteed and no anxious periods.

There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.

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

I write about moments, and I don’t make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody’s come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

A foolproof plan for not getting a job – show up for your interview wearing flip flops.

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

So here are some foolproof recipes for those of you who understand the true function of food. Bean Treat: Gingerly pour four fluid oz of beans or something into a jug. Cry. Eat the beans from the jug and pour the rest from the can down your throat. N.B. These taste better if they belong to somebody else in your house. Pain au Dunk: Fists of bread, rent from the loaf and dunked into anything runnier than bread. Should eat at least six of these because…you should. Don’t toast the bread. Toast is cookery.

Don’t think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don’t think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don’t aim for perfection. Aim for success.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it’s bad. If my fanny doesn’t squirm, it’s good.

It’s inconceivable that you don’t have to show identification in order to vote or that that the identification doesn’t have to be somewhat foolproof.

It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

If you believe you have a foolproof system, you’ve failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.

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

There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one hand, there’s value in hearing what our government has to say about its actions and vision for the future. On the other, news organizations are responsible for the factual hygiene of their product. In some cases, those two imperatives just aren’t compatible.

I’m not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn’t kill me, its foolproof.

As small, quick, foolproof cameras became generally available, moreover, the camera has been used so much and so flabbily by so many people that it has acted as a sort of contraceptive on the ability to see.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan – create ten businesses.

The combination of a blazer over any T-shirt with a pair of jeans is foolproof.