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Clarke's Second Law
Clarke's Second Law Quotes
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the
impossible.
More Clarke's Second Law Quotes
- 1) Numbers are tools, not rules.
2) Numbers are ...
- 1) The one piece that the plant forgot to ship is ...
- 2 is not equal to 3 - not even for very large valu ...
- 80% of the final exam will be based on the one lec ...
- A few months in the laboratory can save a few hour ...
- A little ignorance can go a long way. ...
- A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man wi ...
- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader b ...
- Adding manpower to a late software project makes i ...
- After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold- ...
- After painstaking and careful analysis of a sample ...
- After the last of 16 mounting screws has been remo ...
- Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. ...
- An object at rest will be in the wrong place. ...
- An object in motion will be heading in the wrong d ...
- An object will fall so as to do the most damage. ...
- An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other to ...
- Any given program costs more and takes longer. ...
- Any given program, when running, is obsolete. ...
- Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug. ...
- Any order that can be misunderstood has been misun ...
- Any product cut to length will be too short. ...
- Any program will expand to fill available memory. ...
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistingu ...
- Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least ac ...
- Anybody can win -- unless there happens to be a se ...
- Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it ...
- Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups. ...
- Celibacy is not hereditary. ...
- Chicken Little only has to be right once. ...
- Complex problems have simple, easy to understand w ...
- Design flaws travel in groups. ...
- Don't be conspicuous. In the combat zone, it draws ...
- Don't force it; get a larger hammer. ...
- Enough research will tend to support your theory. ...
- Every instructor assumes that you have nothing els ...
- Everything costs more and takes longer. ...
- Everything goes wrong all at once. ...
- Everything goes wrong all at once. ...
- For every action there is an equal and opposite go ...
- Friendly fire isn't. ...
- Government expands to absorb revenue and then some ...
- Hot glass looks the same as cold glass. ...
- I have yet to see any problem, however complicated ...
- If a computer cable has one end, then it has anoth ...
- If a program is useful, it will have to be changed ...
- If a program is useless, it will have to be docume ...
- If an experiment works, something has gone wrong. ...
- If anything can go wrong, it will. ...
- If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidenc ...
- If at first you don't succeed, read the manual. ...
- If builders built buildings the way programmers wr ...
- If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. ...
- If it does exist, it's out of date. ...
- If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick i ...
- If it should exist, it doesn't. ...
- If nobody uses it, there's a reason. ...
- If the facts do not conform to the theory, they mu ...
- If the shoe fits, it's ugly. ...
- If there are two or more ways to do something, and ...
- If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget ...
- If you are given an open-book exam, you will forge ...
- If you can't learn to do it well, you should learn ...
- If you change lines, the one you just left will st ...
- If you did manage to get any good shots, they will ...
- If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know.
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- If you knew what you were doing, you'd probably be ...
- If you need four screws for the job, the first thr ...
- If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a n ...
- If you tell the boss you were late for work becaus ...
- If you wait, it will go away. ...
- If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy. ...
- If, when completion of a design is imminent, field ...
- In a social situation, the most difficult thing to ...
- In any collection of data, the figure most obvious ...
- In approaching a double door, you will always go t ...
- In simple cases, presenting one obvious right way ...
- Incoming fire has the right of way. ...
- Information necessitating a change of design will ...
- Inside every small problem is a large problem stru ...
- It ain't necessarily so. ...
- It always takes longer than you expect, even when ...
- It is better for civilization to be going down the ...
- It is impossible to make anything foolproof becaus ...
- It is usually impractical to worry beforehand abou ...
- It works better if you plug it in. ...
- Justice always prevails ... three times out of sev ...
- Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to ...
- Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wron ...
- Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its ...
- Murphy was an optimist. ...
- Murphy's law was not propounded by Murphy, but by ...
- Negative expectations yield negative results.
Po ...
- Never attribute to malice that which is adequately ...
- Never eat at a place called Mom's.
Never play ca ...
- Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you ...
- Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself. ...
- Never worry about the bullet with your name on it. ...
- No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation w ...
- No books are lost by loaning except those you part ...
- No experiment is reproducible. ...
- No matter what the experiment's result, there will ...
- No matter which direction you start it's always ag ...
- No matter which way you ride, it's uphill and agai ...
- No project was ever completed on time and within b ...
- Nobody notices when things go right. ...
- Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will n ...
- On the way to the corner, any dropped tool will fi ...
- Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve ...
- Once you open a can of worms, the only way to reca ...
- Only God can make a truly random selection. ...
- Only useless documentation transcends the first tw ...
- Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune m ...
- People are always available for work in the past t ...
- Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts ab ...
- Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capa ...
- Progress is made on alternate Fridays. ...
- Push something hard enough and it will fall over. ...
- Shredded cabbage goes great with shredded carrots ...
- Smile, tomorrow will be worse. ...
- Social innovations tend to the level of minimum to ...
- Spend sufficient time confirming the need and the ...
- Technology don't transfer. ...
- The army with the smartest dress uniform will lose ...
- The best shots are generally attempted through the ...
- The best shots happen immediately after the last f ...
- The chance of the bread falling with the butter si ...
- The first pull on the cord ALWAYS sends the drapes ...
- The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional ...
- The limits of the possible can only be defined by ...
- The longer you wait in line, the greater the likel ...
- The more innocuous the modification appears to be, ...
- The more studying you did for the exam, the less s ...
- The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an ...
- The most delicate component will be dropped. ...
- The most important leg of a three legged stool is ...
- The night before the English History mid-term, you ...
- The only things that start on time are those that ...
- The other line moves faster. ...
- The probability of someone watching you is proport ...
- The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large an ...
- The remaining work to finish in order to reach you ...
- The shortest distance between two points is under ...
- The strength of the turbulence is directly proport ...
- The trouble with resisting temptation is it may ne ...
- The value of a program is proportional to the weig ...
- There are no answers, only cross references. ...
- There's always one more bug. ...
- Things get worse under pressure. ...
- Those whose approval you seek the most give you th ...
- Tolerances will accumulate unidirectionally toward ...
- Trouble strikes in series of threes, but when work ...
- Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in co ...
- Variables won't, constants aren't. ...
- What you don't know will always hurt you. ...
- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states ...
- When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. ...
- When reviewing your notes before an exam, the most ...
- When the plane you are on is late, the plane you w ...
- When there is a very long road upon which there is ...
- When travelling down the freeway, the first bug to ...
- When working on a project, if you put away a tool ...
- When working toward the solution of a problem, it ...
- When working toward the solution of a problem, it ...
- When you are served a meal aboard an aircraft, the ...
- When you need to knock on wood is when you realize ...
- Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some ...
- You can fool all of the people some of the time, a ...
- You cannot successfully determine beforehand which ...
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