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Quote of the week

From Giles Coren’s column in The Times:

I READ this week that Leonardo da Vinci’s blueprints for advanced machines of war contained deliberate mistakes that would make them impossible to build. A tradition maintained to this day by the little diagrams that come with flat-pack furniture from Ikea.

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