Always Choose Stupidity Over Conspiracy, Incompetence Over Cunning

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.
                         -- Charles Krauthammer

Pudder's Law:

Pudder's Law:
        Anything that begins well will end badly.
        (Note: The converse of Pudder's law is not true.)

Managing Technology

Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.

-- Anonymous

Running A Amall Business

If you are going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone else is doing, be the first one in and the last one out and work weekends.

-- Glen Mazzara

If you are going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone else is doing, be the first one in and the last one out and work weekends. -- Glen Mazzara

Whay are People Good

 "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward,
 then we are a sorry lot indeed."
 -- Albert Einstein

Magic vs Technology

 Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
                -- Arthur C. Clarke

Conflicting Stories

 When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course
 is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.
   -- H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow"