Arthur Bloch Quotes

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

Every solution breeds new problems.

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Dunn's Law:Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck.

HLADE’S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man — he will find an easier way to do it.