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

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.

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

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.

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

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