Arthur Bloch Quotes

United States, Writer
January 1, 1948

Arthur Bloch (born on January 1, 1948) is an American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books.[1] 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.

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Every solution breeds new problems.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

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- Friends

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

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- Thinking
- Tired
Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

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

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- Long
Every clarification breeds new questions.

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

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- Failure

Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.

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

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