# Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
# Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.
# Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.
# If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
# The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.
# The attention span of a computer is only as long as it electrical cord.
# An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
# Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure. great discoveries are made by mistake.
# Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
# Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
# All's well that ends.
# A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
# The first myth of management is that it exists.
# A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.
# New systems generate new problems.
# To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
# We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
# Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clark
# A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make.
# Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's work.
# Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book.
# The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.
# To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.
# After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.
# Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable and three parts which are still under development.
# A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
# If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number.
# Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.
# .Give all orders verbally. Never write anything down that might go into a "Pearl Harbor File."
# Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
# If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious.
# The more cordial the buyer's secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.
# In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totaled correctly after 4:30 p.m. on Friday. The correct total will become self-evident at 8:15 a.m. on Monday.
# Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
# All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.
# The only perfect science is hind-sight.
# Work smarder and not harder and be careful of yor speling.
# If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist.
# If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
# When all else fails, read the instructions.
# 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.
# Everything that goes up must come down.
Corollary: Not always
