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Arthur Bloch (born on January 1, 1948) is an American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books. He has also written a self-help satire called Healing Yourself with Wishful Thinking. Since 1986 he has been the producer/director of the Thinking Allowed PBS television series.

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Every solution breeds new problems.

Breeds, Idaho, Murphys Law, Problem, Problems, Solution

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Compromise, Compromising, Never Compromise, Suggestions

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Accumulate, Come, Friends, Friendship, Funny, Humor

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Lasts, Rule, Schedules, Tasks, Ten, Time

Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

Fill, Given, Memories, Memory, Program

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

Important, Look, Perspective, Project, Thinking, Work

Don't force it. . . get a bigger hammer.

Bigger, Force, Hammer, Hammers

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Breeds, Clarification, Questioning, Questions

An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

Cost, Expert, Experts, Job, Jobs, Take

People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

Build, Equity, Money, Pay, People

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

Down, Giant, Giants, Onions, Wont, Years

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.

Adversity, Cause, Causes, Damage, Several, Wrong

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

Conclusions, Enough, Research, Support, Tend

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Errors, Increase, Insists, Reliability, Work

First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.

Acting, Firsts, Intended, Look, Looks, Rule

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

Break, Enough, Long, Malfunction, Progress

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Appear, Failure, Final, Finals, Inspection

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

Adversity, Certain, Needs, Project, Tool, Tools