>Your friend was trying to sound smart to distract from his unwillingness or inability to come to grips with the underlying design issues. Stout claim. So I p

>Your friend was trying to sound smart to distract from his unwillingness or inability to come to grips with the underlying design issues. Stout claim. So I presume that you've witnessed any design or engineering firm that was able to deal with every 'idiot' within their problem domain? I think OPs interpretation of the saying is more correct. The saying is bringing up the impossibility of designing something for everyone , not the deflecting of labor in some snarky way.