The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
Hardware works best when it matters the least.
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.
There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
The optimum committee has no members.
It costs a lot to build bad products.
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.
The more one produces, the less one gets.
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
