Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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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/ovsgddqq · submitted 1997
Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.
tiny.ag/u05c2aqo · submitted 1997
Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.
Unknown, (motto of the Dutch Poet's Society), in Success and Failure
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.
tiny.ag/uc5f23qi · submitted 1997
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
tiny.ag/xqe7yfma · submitted 1997
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
tiny.ag/2wniecpg · submitted 1997
It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as high as the eagle?
tiny.ag/pe3wjdh9 · submitted 1997
Jenkinson's Law: It won't work.
tiny.ag/xnqzybth · submitted 1997
Johnson's First Law: When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time.
tiny.ag/0raepug8 · submitted 1997
Jones' Law: The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
tiny.ag/jaktd8ze · submitted 1997
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
tiny.ag/pcn2zosg · submitted 1997
Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
tiny.ag/ckyj1g65 · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and then she has puppies.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/d75fswen · submitted 1998 by William F. Light
Don't let fear stop you.
William F. Light, (to someone threatening to knock him out), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/enjckxg8 · submitted 1997
Nothing very good or very bad lasts very long.
tiny.ag/mtyfl0j1 · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/rvxpkbzw · submitted 1997
The average person thinks he isn't.
tiny.ag/0aw3r6zu · submitted 1999
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
tiny.ag/4horecyq · submitted 1997
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
tiny.ag/boc0z1r2 · submitted 1997
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
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