Best 17 quotes of Paul Dickson on MyQuotes

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.

In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

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 can-nonballs linked with a chain for added destruction], and the Peacemaker, to name a few.)

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.