The 50 50 90 rule: Anytime you have a 50 50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.