Citas de Paul Dickson

• The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

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  Baseball, Hands, Made

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

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  Answers, Admonition, Knows

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• En cualquier situación de decisión, la cantidad de información relevante disponible es inversamente proporcional a la importancia de la decisión.

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  Decision, Information, Importance

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• A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

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  Simplicity, Unreliability, Complexity

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• May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

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  Past, Looks, May

  Paul Dickson (2014). “Rising to the Occasion: The Best Toasts for Any Celebration”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Las probabilidades de que la luz al final del túnel sea el faro de un tren que se aproxima son de seis a cinco.

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  Tunnels, Light, Odds

  Washingtonian November 1978

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• No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

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  Success, Teaching, Making Mistakes

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

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  Funny Life, Airplane, Law

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• Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

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  Divertido, Humor, Derecho

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

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  Age, Comfort, Realization

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• Cuanto más inocuo es el nombre de un arma, más horrible es su impacto. Algunas de las armas más horribles de la época de Vietnam se llamaban Bambi, Infant, Daisycutter, Grasshopper y Agent Orange. La tendencia tampoco es nueva: del pasado tenemos el Gas Mostaza, los Angel Chasers [dos latas-balas unidas con una cadena para mayor destrucción] y el Peacemaker, por nombrar algunos).

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  Angel, Past, Impact

  "The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects".

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• A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

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  Money, Business, Home

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• Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

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  Problem, Accuracy, Courses

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• All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

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  Real, Errors, Impossible

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• Una corbata limpia atrae la sopa del día.

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  Ties, Soup, Clean

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• Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

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  Law, Giving, Advice

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• Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

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  Law, Innovation, Levels

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• Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.

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  Hands, Advice, Allowance

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

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  Elephants, Advice, Eating

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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