Paul Dickson Quotes

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• The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.
• The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
• May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
• No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
• The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named…
• In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.
• The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.
• Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.
• Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
• Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the…
• Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
• Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
• Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.
• A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
• All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.
• Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.
• A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
• Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.
• A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train
• The great comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

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