You can make all the right decisions and still lose
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It's a quote, to quote Captain Picard. From next generation. You can make all the right decisions and still lose.
Episode 151: One Big Table (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:39:42 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Quoting Captain Picard while describing how hard it is to track changing remote items across database runs: sometimes doing everything right still doesn't work out.
Not in the audio. Quote attributed by Dave to Captain Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation); exact wording of the original line not verified.