Paul Dickson Quotes

#1. Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

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#2. All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

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#3. In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

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#4. Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.

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#5. A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

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#6. Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

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#7. 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 question.

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#8. Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

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#9. No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

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#10. The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

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#11. The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

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#12. Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

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#13. Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

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#14. A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

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#15. A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

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#16. The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

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#17. May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

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