Paul Dickson
Paul Dickson
Paul Dicksonis a freelance writer of more than 65 non-fiction books, mostly on American English language and popular culture. He has written many articles on a wide variety of subjects, including baseball and the military...
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Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.
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Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
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Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.
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Why is he called the shortstop? Why do they call it a bunt?
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TV trains us to watch the ball, but you need to see how the outfielders move around, where the infielders are positioned,
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A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.
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The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.
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Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
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Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
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A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
real errors impossible
All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.
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Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.
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No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
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A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.