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I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.
Sep 29, 2025
The longer the title, the less important the job.
And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.
When all else fails, read the instructions.
Every solution breeds new problems.
That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.
The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.
'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.
There were a number of particularly delightful incidents. There is, for example, the physicist who introduced me to one of my favorite laws, which he described as Murphys law or the fourth law of thermodynamics (actually there were only three last I heard) which states: If anything can go wrong it will.
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
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 people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Nobody notices when things go right.
If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.
I see light at the end of the tunnel.
I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.
If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
The first myth of management is that it exists.
Don't get mad, get even.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.
Know what you're talking about.
Know what you are talking about.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.