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Their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.

— The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars, and so on – while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.

But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.

-– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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Unfortunately, as it often happens, there is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution

-– Ilya Grigorik, High Performance Browser Networking