If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

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.

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

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.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

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