Subject: Problems (Page 3)

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

When a doctor makes a mistake, it's best to bury the subject.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

It’s a dog-eat-dog world, Sammy, and I’m wearing Milk-Bone underwear.

George Wendt (1948 – ) American actor

I don't look to jump over seven-foot bars: I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over.

(1930 – ) financier & investment businessman

The new hardware will break down as soon as the old is disconnected and out.

The Course of Progress: Most things get steadily worse.
The Path of Progress: A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is… well, an umpire.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

I made a wrong mistake.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.


When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.

The most undesirable things are the most certain (death and taxes).

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

(1892 – 1964) singer, dancer, comedian, actor & songwriter

1 + 1 hardly ever equals 2.

Nothing is easy.

It is better to have a horrible ending than to have horrors without end.

In this world there are winners and losers – and, of course, ‘the others’, who comprise the majority.

(1967 – ) English comedian

Yesterday I accidentally hit a little kid with my car; it wasn’t serious – nobody saw me.

(1978 – ) American writer & stand-up comedian

The most expensive component is the one that breaks.

Some guy hit my fender and I said "be fruitful and multiply" but not in those words.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

The effort of catching a falling object will cause more destruction than if the object had been allowed to fall in the first place.

Experiments should be reproducible… they should all fail in the same way.