A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-Douglas
Adams
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are
better than you think.
-T. Harv Eker
Do not underestimate the power of The Force.
-George Lucas
Don't underestimate the power of being underestimated.
-Tim Fargo
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
-A.A.
Milne
Friendly cynics and fierce enemies alike often underestimate or ignore
the strong thread of moral purpose which runs through the fabric of
American history.
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe
whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
-Theodore Dreiser
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private
needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't
underestimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care
of social needs.
-George Soros
Never underestimate the corrective lens that is sentimentality.
-Sarah
Vowell
Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
-Claud
Cockburn
Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they
already know.
-Enrico Fermi
Never underestimate the power of a lot of stupid people working in the
same company.
-Karen Boucher
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
-Robert A.
Heinlein
Never underestimate the power of psychosis.
-Variously attributed
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
-Variously
attributed
Never underestimate your adversary, not even in a snowball fight.
-J.P.
Donleavy
Never underestimate your listener's intelligence, or overestimate you
listener's information.
-Eric Sevareid
No one in this world, as far as I know.... has ever lost money by
underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
-H.L.
Mencken
Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the
Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep
a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.
-Jerry Pournelle
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year- and
underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
-Tony Robbins
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
-Henry
Adams
There's a persistent tendency for us to very seriously underestimate how
much design has gone into our brains in the course of our beloved Gaia's
yottaflop parallel computation running on a quintillion processors for
several billion years.
-Rudy Rucker
They misunderestimated me.
-George W. Bush
Those you say they give the public what it wants begin by
underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
-T.S. Eliot
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a
listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all
of which have the potential to turn a life around.
-Leo Buscaglia
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years
and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let
yourself be lulled into inaction.
-Bill Gates
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