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

Every clarification breeds new questions.

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

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

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.

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

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