One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
Hardware works best when it matters the least.
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.
