Arthur Bloch

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.

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

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

Every solution breeds new problems.

A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

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

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

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

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.

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