Paul Dickson quotes
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“The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.”
-- Paul DicksonSource : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.76, Courier Corporation
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“Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.”
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“A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.”
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“Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.”
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“All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.”
-- Paul DicksonSource : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.127, Courier Corporation
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“Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.”
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“Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.”
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“Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.”
-- Paul DicksonSource : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.9, Courier Corporation
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“Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.”
-- Paul DicksonSource : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.1, Courier Corporation
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“Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.”
-- Paul DicksonSource : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.1, Courier Corporation
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“Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.”
-- Paul DicksonSource : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.36, Courier Corporation
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“The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.”
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“In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.”
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“The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named 'Bambi', 'Infant', 'Daisycutter', 'Grasshopper', and 'Agent Orange'. Nor is the trend new: from the past we have 'Mustard Gas'', 'Angel Chasers' (two cannonballs linked with a chain for added destruction) and 'The Peacemaker' to name but a few.)”
-- Paul DicksonSource : "The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects".
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“The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.”
-- Paul DicksonSource : Washingtonian November 1978
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“No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.”
-- Paul DicksonSource : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.55, Courier Corporation
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“May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.”
-- Paul DicksonSource : Paul Dickson (2014). “Rising to the Occasion: The Best Toasts for Any Celebration”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.”
-- Paul Dickson
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