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

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.

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

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

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

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.