Friday, April 10, 2015

Fortune Quote #980

All you have to do to succeed is get up one time more than you're knocked
down.

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Fortune Quote #979

Peter's Law of Substitution: "Look after the molehills, and the mountains
will look after themselves."

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Fortune Quote #978

Peers's Law: "The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem."

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Fortune Quote #977

PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two
periods of fighting. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Monday, April 6, 2015

Fortune Quote #976

PASCAL: A programming language named after a man who would turn over in
his grave if he knew about it. -- Datamation, January 15, 1984

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Fortune Quote #975

Osborn's Law: "Variables won't; constants aren't."

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Fortune Quote #974

"In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented
six feet downward and covered with dirt." -- Blair P. Houghton (Re:
C program indentation)

Friday, April 3, 2015

Fortune Quote #973

Nusbaum's Rule: "The more pretentious the corporate name, the smaller the
organization." (e.g. the Murphy Center for the Codification of Human and
Organizational Law versus IBM, GM, and AT&T.)

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Fortune Quote #972

He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next exit.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Fortune Quote #971

Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: "The first ninety percent of a
task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the
other ninety percent."