Paul Dickson may refer to:
The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.
Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.
All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.
Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.
Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named 'Bambi', 'Infant', 'Daisycutter', 'Grasshopper', and 'Agent Orange'. Nor is the trend new: from the past we have 'Mustard Gas'', 'Angel Chasers' (two cannonballs linked with a chain for added destruction) and 'The Peacemaker' to name but a few. )
Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.
A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.
Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.
A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.
Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.