Arthur Bloch Quotations

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.

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

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

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

Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

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

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

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

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.

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