Ponderings

You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows

absolutely everything about nothing.

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you.

Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.

All great discoveries are made by mistake.

Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.

All's well that ends.

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

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

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.

Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's work.

To spot the expert,

pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

After all is said and done,

a hell of a lot more is said than done.

If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer,

try multiplying by the page number.

Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.

Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.

Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

The only perfect science is hind-sight.

If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.

When all else fails, read the instructions.

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.

Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner.

Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.

Ponderings