If you've seen one air traffic control tower, you've seen one air traffic control tower.

Trust, but verify.

Owning a gun related business is a great way to make a small fortune... out of a large fortune.

From public accounting: In God we trust, all others we audit.

quote:

Originally posted by XLT:
construction business, " we are not building a piano"

That takes me back to working for one of the meanest, foulest men on Earth doing some construction work in high school.

DRIVE IT UP YOU'RE NOT BUILDING A FUCKING WATCH YOU IDIOT!!!

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From internal medicine:
Air goes in and out
Blood goes round and round
Keep your patients out of the hands of the surgeons

Retired from Dept of Corrections:

Act like an asshole, get treated like an asshole!

Chiropractic:
How many chiropractors does it take to screw in a light bulb?

It only takes one, but it takes 30 visits.

quote:

Originally posted by tanner:
Project Management:

1. You can’t put nine women in a room and expect a baby in a month.

I have been known to use this when speaking to engineering directorate and executives, "you can't get nine women pregnant at the same time and expect a baby in one month."


Also like using, "More water will not put out this fire any sooner." (as in a response to "we're behind schedule, put more people on it")

"Tight is loose."

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

originally from a statistician. applicable to contaminant fate and transport models in the environmental field. and apparently to managing pandemics.

To err is human. To really mess things up takes a computer.

Software Development/Engineering

Independent of time and money, we can do anything.

This to product managers wanting everything and the kitchen sink next week.

From construction management:

Engineers can make anything stick to a wall on paper.

From the trading world:

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Measure twice, cut once

Incompetence always shows in the end

Trust, but verify

Pharmacy: A miracle drug is one whose price didn't increase from last year.

Hello, IT.
Have you tried turning it off & on again?




Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rksCTVFtjM4

To the project manager: Which do you want, fast or right.
Reply: Both.
To the project manager: Ok then, you want it half-fast.

Two can do what one can never do.

Caulk and paint make a carpenter what he ain't.

My other good one, as a PM, is:

"Engineers tell us how it should work, technicians tell us how it does work"

Computer tech solutions/support:

Your lack of planning is not my emergency.