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

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Boob's Law: You always find something in the last place you look.

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Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

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Blessed are those who expect nothing... for they will not be disappointed.

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Blessed are the meek for they shall inhibit the earth.

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Anyone who uses the phrase "easy as taking candy from a baby" has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone else's dog.

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Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

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Any small object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger object.

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Anthony's Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.

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An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

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A ship doesn't travel far in a calm sea.

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