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Humourous Quotes regarding engineering design.

• Intimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories:
  1. Those that don't work.
  2. Those that break down.
  3. Those get lost.
  
• Never fight an inanimate object.
• It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize that you are in a hurry.
• The more efficiently a project is done, the greater the chance it will have to be undone.
• After spending 45 minutes on a repair, you discover a 5-minue way to do it.
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
• The simple a thing looks, the more problems it hides.
• If there are two competing and incompatible technologies in the market, the inferior technology will prevail.
• The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management.
• If a system is of sufficient complexity, it will be built before it is designed, implemented before it is tested, and outdated before it is debugged.
• The single odd-sized nut, bolt or screw which you have seen every time you open your toolbox will disappear on the day a job calls for that particular size.
• A ton of anything is ugly.
• If you put it together correctly the first time, there was nothing you should have done before you put it together.
• You never know what that extra part is for until you have thrown it away.
• If you have only one nail, it will bend.
• When fasting down something held by several screws, don't tighten any of them until they are all in place.
• Every new project requires a tool that you don't have.
• Men have become the tools of their tools.
• A component selected at random from a group having 99% reliability will be a member of the 1% group.
• Anything adjustable will eventually need adjustment.
• Hell is the place where everything tests perfectly and nothing works.
• Design flaws travel in groups.
• The changes in new models should be attractive as to create dissatisfaction with past models.

The Machine Rules  :

1. Nothing will work that is put back together in the reverse of the way it was dismantled.
2. The last turn on any nut or bolt will strip it or snap it off.
   Corollary: Without the last turn, the nut or bolt will fall off.

Laws of Documentation  :

1. If it should exist, it doesn't
2. If it does exist, It is out of date.
3. Only useless documents transcends the first two laws.

The Stages Of Systems Development  :

1. Wild enthusiasm.
2. Disillusionment.
3. Total confusion.
4. Search for the guilty.
5. Punishment of the innocent
6. Promotion of the non-participants.