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Famous Understatements throughout History  
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Some famous understatements throughout the history of the world

	"He Chose... Poorly." - from Grail Knight in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"
	“Computers in the Future May Weigh No More than 1.5 Tons.” - Popular Mechanics, 1949
	"It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material." - Watson and Crick's dry account of DNA's structure was one of the most famous understatements in the history of science
	"I'm doing a (free) operating system ... it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks" - Linus Torvalds, on comp.os.minix

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