Arthur Bloch Quotes

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

Arthur Bloch

#2. Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Arthur Bloch

#3. I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

Sue Grafton

#4. 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.

Arthur Bloch

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

Arthur Bloch

#6. Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Arthur Bloch

#7. I know you, you believe that God tests people and you have to have faith that things are going according to His plan.."
"God is not in my bedroom." That was just nine kinds of wrong.

James Buchanan

#8. HLADE'S LAW:

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

Arthur Bloch

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

Arthur Bloch

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

Arthur Bloch

#11. The gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The result is supposedly-clever government interventions, introduced with excessive confidence, leading to disastrous results.

Arnold Kling

#12. Dunn's Law:

Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck.

Arthur Bloch

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

Arthur Bloch

#14. People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

Arthur Bloch

#15. What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.

William Sloane Coffin

#16. 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.

Arthur Bloch

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

Arthur Bloch

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

Arthur Bloch

#19. Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

Alain LeRoy Locke

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

Arthur Bloch

#21. When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

Arthur Bloch

#22. Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

Herbert Gold

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

Arthur Bloch

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

Arthur Bloch

#25. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never. I

Colleen Hoover

#26. Hell, a fifty-dollar vibrator could do his job, and I wouldn't have to listen to its bullshit.

Kendall Ryan

#27. I endeavor to make the most of everything.

Victoria Woodhull

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

Arthur Bloch

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

Arthur Bloch

#30. 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.

Arthur Bloch

#31. Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes ... swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

Barbara Brown Taylor