That one is a trifle too cynical… A largish core of truth in there under the dark humour, but too little that you could translate into something useful.
(Actually, usually I have seen the complexity of the fail safe is one of the factors that screws up the happy case, which then fails in a manner the analysts said we didn’t have to worry about as it would never happen.)
Here’s another nice summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics#System_failure
Copypasta of my favourites:
That one is a trifle too cynical… A largish core of truth in there under the dark humour, but too little that you could translate into something useful.
(Actually, usually I have seen the complexity of the fail safe is one of the factors that screws up the happy case, which then fails in a manner the analysts said we didn’t have to worry about as it would never happen.)