Arthur Bloch Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Every clarification breeds new questions.

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

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

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.