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Most accidents in well-designed systems involve two or more events of low probability occurring in the worst possible combination.

Robert E. Machol

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Robert Engel Machol (October 16, 1917 – November 12, 1998) was an American systems engineer and Professor of Systems at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University.

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