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If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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An editorial interpretation.
A wry joke about fame: if you can't earn a lasting name through success, you can still get one by being spectacularly wrong. Mistakes, if big enough, get remembered longer than modest achievements, so a really good blunder becomes its own kind of monument.
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