Success and Failure

Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.

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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.

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Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.

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My hands are free, but my mind hesitates.

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Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.

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Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.

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Measure twice because you can only cut once.

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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

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If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

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If you do what you've always done, you'll be what you've always been.

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If you see a turtle on a fence post, he has had some help.

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Imbesi's Law with Freeman's Extension: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty; but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.

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It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.

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It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.

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It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

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Life's a bitch, and then she has puppies.

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It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

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Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

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Jones' Law: The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

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Jenkinson's Law: It won't work.

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