Arthur Bloch Quotes

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• Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
• The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
• Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.
• Every clarification breeds new questions.
• Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.
• If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.
• Every solution breeds new problems.
• First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.
• 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…
• 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.
• When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.
• 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.
• Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.
• A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
• If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
• 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…
• A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

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