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

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Source : Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult

Arthur Bloch

#Work Quotes #Errors Quotes #Reliability Quotes

“If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.”
“The rise of Donald Trump is explained not so much by the hatred of Muslims, but rather the hatred of just one Muslim. The one who is not a Muslim.”
“I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.”
“It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.”
“In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully. So we compromise. We do some of what we should, thus removing the stigma of disobedience. But we refrain from the most difficult or objectionable or uncomfortable part, and thus try to get the best of both worlds.”
“Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.”
“Good health is not the absence of symptoms, it is the presence of peace.”

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