[thedivahrrrself]

From my favorite misanthrope, Douglas Adams:

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

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