Once you realize how often people make mistakes, it's pretty bewildering how many things actually work, amirite?

And this is why I don't travel by airplane

It also helps the bigger stuff is the more people worked on that stuff, lessening the chance for failure. Apes together strong

The normalization of deviation is the scariest thing. Like the Challenger disaster. Those rubber seals were not rated for that cold weather... But they had done fine all the other times they went against the recommended temperature... Until it wasn't fine.

I work at an Amazon sort center and I say this nearly every night I work. I'm amazed that most packages get to where they're going, and quickly, because the process is pretty archaic.

I am amazed at how many people do not know what they are doing and just wing it hoping for the best.

In the IT support sector we say that 80% of tickets are caused by something known as PEBKAC: Problem Existing Between the Keyboard and the Chair.

Another good one I saw from software developers: we try to make our software fool-proof, but they keep making better fools

Never look into how the current x64_86 architecture actually works, it is temporary fixes that became permanent.

This is basically my hypothesis as to why conspiracy theories are all bunk

Pretty much every thing that works does so as a result of our previous mistakes.

There's a reason why making mistakes is quite often the best way to learn

Mistakes are how people learn to make things work.

And this is why stuff like medical/defense technology is so expensive, when you really need to know something will actually work it costs like 10x more.

Once you learn about how computers work, your mind will explode at how anything goes right in technology.