Random quotes for a Wednesday

Posted under A Geek Dad's Life, Blog Posts, Software Design

While searching for the origin of a comment that I heard on Frontline tonight, I stumbled on a collection of brilliant quotes.  There were some old/lame ones in the list, but also some surprising/fresh ones.  Here are some of my favorites:

Anderson’s Law

Any system or program, however complicated, if looked at in exactly the right way, will become even more complicated.

Cannon’s Cogent Comment:

The leak in the roof is never in the same location as the drip.

Clarke’s First Law:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Clopton’s Law:

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.

Courtois’s Rule:

If people listened to themselves more often, they’d talk less.

Osborn’s Law:

Variables won’t; constants aren’t.

(Charles) Ross’s Law:

Never characterize the importance of a statement in advance.

Whispered Rule:

People will believe anything if you whisper it.

See the entire list here:
http://www.cse.unr.edu/~sushil/class/135/notes/quotes.html