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...
law giving advice
Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.
call
Why is he called the shortstop? Why do they call it a bunt?
move trains tv watch
TV trains us to watch the ball, but you need to see how the outfielders move around, where the infielders are positioned,
business home office
A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.
age realization nine
The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.
hands advice allowance
Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.
elephants advice eating
Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
funny humor law
Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
law innovation levels
Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
ties soup clean
A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
real errors impossible
All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.
problem accuracy knows
Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.
success example used
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
simplicity unreliability complexity
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.