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Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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tiny.ag/zoq7mjnx · submitted 1997
Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
tiny.ag/nqmdzsyl · submitted 1997
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
tiny.ag/6bpzcbnv · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/yjcobkfn · submitted 1997
No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
tiny.ag/zuqxlkhf · submitted 1997
Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.
tiny.ag/ihluxzog · submitted 1997
Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it.
tiny.ag/rcehbv9s · submitted 1997
Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
tiny.ag/avjgt67o · submitted 1997
Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/bhsju9kv · submitted 1997
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/rp6yelnf · submitted 1997
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.
Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/sshro1au · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
Policy is a guide to the wise and a rule to the fool.
Unknown, (expression used in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/xts9pvd0 · submitted 1997
Perfection is only achieved on the point of collapse.
Unknown, (from Bjarne Stroustrup's book on C++), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/4wuke9ix · submitted 1997
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
tiny.ag/0arre1jp · submitted 1997
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
tiny.ag/nsh95i8e · submitted 1997
People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito.
tiny.ag/bmuf1k6g · submitted 1997
People do not resist change -- they resist being changed.
tiny.ag/vdvrew4w · submitted 1997
Pardo's First Postulate: Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
tiny.ag/xhom8dbn · submitted 1997
Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail.
tiny.ag/me4bnv2q · submitted 1997
Ogden's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
tiny.ag/oumhmbbr · submitted 1997
Official Project Stages: (1) Uncritical Acceptance. (2) Wild Enthusiasm. (3) Dejected Disillusionment. (4) Total Confusion. (5) Search for the Guilty. (6) Punishment of the Innocent. (7) Promotion of the Non-participants.
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