Quotes by Ancient web design proverbs
- Ancient web design proverbs
- Bobby Robson
- David Brent
- Dogbert (from Dilbert)
- Patient's hospital charts
- Sid Waddell
- Spike Milligan
- Steven Wright
Quotes by Ancient web design proverbs »
“The less time it takes the engineer or programmer to make the change, the more time it takes the writer to describe it.”
“Any simple idea will of its own accord find the most complicated explanation.”
“The tightness of the schedule is inversely proportional to the remoteness of the deadline.”
“If it looks easy, it's hard. If it looks hard, it's impossible. If it looks impossible, it's due tomorrow. At 8 A.M.”
“No deadline is impossible to the person who doesn't have to meet it.”
“The first half of the project takes eighty percent of the time available. The second half takes the other eighty percent.”
“There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over .... and over ... and over and over .”
“Technology expands to overflow the time available to explain it.”
“It is a waste of time to anticipate delays. No matter how much time you allow, the actual delays will be longer.”
“After you detect and correct an error, you will discover you were right all along.”
“Meanings implied are seldom inferred.”
“White space never lies.”
“If you don't understand something, use longer words. Share the ignorance with your readers.”
“The more important a piece of information, the less available it is.”
“To know what is academic. To know why is pedantic. To know how is talent.”
“There's always one more typo.”
“No typo ever goes away. It just moves somewhere else.”
“Every reader will immediately find the typo that no proofreader could ever find.”
“Sentences come and sentences go, but typos accumulate.”
“If you think everyone will like it, no one will. If you think no one will like it, you are probably right.”
“The amount of criticism of a publication is proportional to its true value.”
“The quality of the text varies inversely with the opulence of the cover.”
“Rule zero: Have something to say.”
“The quality of prose is inversely proportional to the number of co-authors.”
“The probability of someone reading something is inversely proportional to the cube of its length.”
“Efficiency of communication is inversely proportional to the number of pages.”
“Any idea that can be miscommunicated, has already been miscommunicated. Many times.”
“Write something that an idiot can understand and only an idiot will. The author.”
“Truth won't stick to glossy paper.”
“To an advertiser, an ounce of sizzle is worth a pound of truth.”
“Once you get it grammatically correct, you'll find it's technically inaccurate. And vice versa.”
“The time it takes to implement a Web site is inversely proportional to the number of authors.”
“The value of a new technology is inversely proportional to the number of times it is featured on CNN.”
“The number of people that find your website way cool is inversely proportional to the number of people you tell it is way cool.”