Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.
Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.
If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days. . . What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
But it is a worry that there have been so many delays in the reform of China's state-owned enterprises. We all know that private companies are run more efficiently than state ones. These reforms are very much anticipated for the potential dynamism they could create.
Know this: God’s delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.
Short-cuts lead to long delays.
Surely revival delays because prayer decays.
Pretending you are not in love with someone only delays the time of you getting over them.
Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more.
All delays are dangerous in war.
Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.
Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.
God's delays are not God's denials.
The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.
