por beatriz j a, em 28.07.11
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- Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
- If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
- The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.
- An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
- Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
- A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
- The first myth of management is that it exists.
- We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Arthur C. Clark)
- A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make.
- To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.
- When all else fails, read the instructions.
- Each profession talks to itself in it's own language, apparently there is no Rosetta Stone.
- If you think you understand science (or computers or men), you're clearly not an expert.