It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.
To copy is to invite disaster.