Paul Dickson
The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.Collection: Baseball
Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.Collection: Answers
In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.Collection: Decision
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.Collection: Simplicity
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.Collection: Past
The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.Collection: Tunnels
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.Collection: Success
Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.Collection: Funny Life
Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.Collection: Funny
The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.Collection: Age
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.)Collection: Angel
A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.Collection: Money
Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.Collection: Problem
All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.Collection: Real
A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.Collection: Ties
Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.Collection: Law
Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.Collection: Law
Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.Collection: Hands
Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.Collection: Elephants