- 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 there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
- If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
- If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
- Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
- Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
- Every solution breeds new problems.
- Enough research will tend to support your theory.
- When there is a very long road upon which there is a one-way bridge placed at random, and there are only two cars on that road, it follows that: (1) the two cars are going in opposite directions, and (2) they will always meet at the bridge.
- ile… tomorrow will be worse.
- Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
- You never run out of things that can go wrong.
- No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
- If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush.
- The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
- Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
- If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
- An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
- All’s well that ends.
- A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.