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

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.

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

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.

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

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.