"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate." -- Arthur Bloch
Arthur Bloch (born 1948) is an American writer, author of the Murphy's law books. He has also written a self-help satire called Healing Yourself with Wishful Thinking. Since 1986 he has been the producer/director of the Thinking Allowed PBS television series.
The proper title of the book is "Murphy's law, and Other Reasons Why Things Go WRONG!" The word "WRONG" is printed upside-down on the book's cover (for obvious reasons).
"A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.""A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.""Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.""Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.""Every clarification breeds new questions.""Every solution breeds new problems.""If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.""If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.""The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.""The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent."