Arthur Bloch Quotes
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When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.
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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.
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People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.
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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
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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.
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If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.
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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.
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Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
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Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.
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Every solution breeds new problems.
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If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
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An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.
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Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.
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First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.
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The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
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Every clarification breeds new questions.
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Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.
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