Arthur Bloch Quotes

• A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.

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• A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

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• Every solution breeds new problems.

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• Every clarification breeds new questions.

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• Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

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• Don’t force it, get a bigger hammer.

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

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

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Birth:	1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

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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/director of the Thinking Allowed PBS television series. The proper title of the book is Murphy's Law, and Other Reasons Why Things Go WRONG!. The word 'Wrong' is printed upside-down on the book's cover. This was the first of many Murphy's Law books.

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