Unfortunately, humans have a long history of trying to fix their engineering mistakes with more engineering mistakes!

Steven Magee
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Unfortunately, humans have a long history of trying to fix their engineering mistakes with more engineering mistakes. This quote is from a blog post by Stephen Colbert, who is one of the most popular comedians in the United States. He was trying to describe the tendency of humans to attempt to over-engineer problems that could be solved with a little bit of better engineering. In this case, he was describing the tendency of humans to use more technology than necessary just because it’s possible. Instead of trying to fix problems with less technology, we try to fix problems with more technology, which only makes things worse.

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