Arthur Bloch Quotes

Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.

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.

Every solution breeds new problems.

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

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

Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

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.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

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

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.