Subject: Problems (Page 13)

It's an ill will that blows when you leave the hairdresser.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

1867 – 1931) English novelist

Never say “oops” while your patient is conscious.

While the difficulties and dangers of problems tend to increase at a geometric rate, the knowledge and manpower qualified to deal with these problems tend to increase linearly.

If your action has a 50% possibility of being correct, you will be wrong 75% of the time.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.

Accident: When presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity… another man’s, I mean.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an automobile accident, you begin to worry about history.

(1953 – ) comedian & actor

A drowning man is not troubled by rain.

Things go right so they can go wrong.

For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

When you’ve made gravy under gunfire, you can do anything.

(1916 – 2000) English music hall performer, comedian & actor

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

(1917 – 1963) 35th U.S. president

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an automobile accident, you begin to worry about history.

(1953 – ) comedian & actor

Men still die with their boots on, but usually one boot is on the accelerator.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

(1943 – 1971) rock singer

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Most accidents in well-designed systems involve two or more events of low probability occurring in the worst possible combination.