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Mostly Harmless · 1992
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.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker observes that failures are more manageable when people admit they can happen. Something declared incapable of failing tends to be built without ways to reach or mend it, so its eventual breakdown becomes a trap. The remark is wry: overconfidence in reliability creates the hardest kind of fault.
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