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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.