foolproof
Speech parts
1. foolproof - Adjective
2. foolproof - Verb
3. foolproof - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
proof against human misuse or error
not liable to failure
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
So the whole "We have a list and we're not telling you" should tell you something. Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, "nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!"
The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.