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Chernobyl melted down because the plant manager overrode each of the safety mechanisms one by one. The safeties were making it inconvenient to run an experiment. The result was that the experiment did not get run, and the world saw its first major civilian nuclear catastrophe.

—from Clean Code, a book by Robert Cecil Martin

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