The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.
| Clara Barton, Public Servant (1821) |
| Cab Calloway, Musician (1907) |
| Carlos Castaneda, Writer (1931) |
| Carlos Castenada, Writer (1925) |
| Orlando Gibbons, Composer (1583) |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician (1876) |
| Karl Abraham, Psychologist (1925) |
| Derek Bailey, Musician (2005) |
| Karel Capek, Writer (1938) |
| W. C. Fields, Comedian (1946) |
| James Gadsden, Politician (1858) |
| Matthew Hale, Historian (1676) |


