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in reply to I want more monkquips

Can you condense down these two quotes from Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless chapter 10 to short enough for a monkquip?

  1. The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when the thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
  2. „The thing he realised about the windows was this: because they had been converted into openable windows after they had first been designed to be impregnable, they were, in fact, much less secure than if they had been designed as openable windows in the first place.