Arthur Bloch Quotes

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

Every solution breeds new problems.

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.

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

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

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

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

An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

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.

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.

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

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

Every clarification breeds new questions.

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

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.