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.
A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.
Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.
Every solution breeds new problems.
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.
If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.
First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.
Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.
When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you’re certain you’re finished with, you will need it instantly.
If your project doesn’t work, look for the part that you didn’t think was important.
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.
An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.