Arthur Bloch Quotes

#1. A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

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#2. 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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#3. Don't force it; get a bigger hammer.

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#4. A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

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#5. Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

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#6. If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

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#7. 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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#8. First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.

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#9. If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

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#10. A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.

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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

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#14. Dunn's Law:

Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck.

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#15. The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

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#16. A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.

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#17. HLADE'S LAW:

If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man - he will find an easier way to do it.

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#18. Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

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#19. An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

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#20. 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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#21. 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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