Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Arthur Bloch

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Arthur Bloch.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Arthur Bloch is an American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books. He has also written a self-help satire called Healing Yourself with Wishful Thinking. Since 1986 he has been the producer and director of the Thinking Allowed PBS television series.

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If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

Arthur Bloch

Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.

Arthur Bloch

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

Arthur Bloch

The 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.

Arthur Bloch

A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

Arthur Bloch

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Arthur Bloch

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Arthur Bloch

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

Arthur Bloch

Every solution breeds new problems.

Arthur Bloch

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Arthur Bloch

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

Arthur Bloch

An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

Arthur Bloch

Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.

Arthur Bloch

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

Arthur Bloch

Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

Arthur Bloch

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Arthur Bloch

People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

Arthur Bloch

First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.

Arthur Bloch

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

Arthur Bloch

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.

Arthur Bloch