[TheForge] variants of rule 0.

[Dave Mudge]

Terry, I hope that was meant to be humorous, otherwise I don't see how
you can ever get anything accomplished........... :-/
To quote an ancient Buddhist saying;
Sometimes you're the windshield,
Sometimes you're the bug..............

dave
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:34 PM, terry l. ridder
<terrylr at blauedonau.com> wrote:
>
> hello;
>
> my two favorites.
>
> Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse
>
> If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
> something
>
>
> If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that
> will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong
>
> alternate version:
> If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that
> will cause the most damage will be the FIRST to go wrong
>
> If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway
>
> If you perceive that there are N possible ways in which something can
> go wrong, and circumvent these, then a N+1 way, unprepared for, will
> promptly develop
>
> Corollary: It will be impossible to fix the N+1 fault, without
> breaking the fix on one or more of the others
>
>
> --
> terry l. ridder ><>
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