Every solution breeds new problems.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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