Too much knowledge usually results in the paralysis of analysis.
Nope. Not enough knowledge does that. If someone has "paralysis of analysis", it's because they don't know what's really important to making something work. So they focus on the wrong things. The person with more knowledge knows what is and isn't important to consider.
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Some guidelines:
"Paper is cheaper than parts."
"If nobody does it that way, there's probably a very good reason."
"Fast, cheap, good - pick any two."
"Nothing is ever difficult for the person who doesn't have to do the work."
"Failing to plan is planning to fail."
"Sometimes you get there faster if you slow down."
"Don't give a $100 solution to a $1 problem."
"If you can't find it when you need it, you don't actually have it."
"Often the improvement in a receiver is in what you
don't hear"
"Prior planning prevents piss poor performance"
"There is no such thing as a personal problem that can't be solved by the proper application of the correct amount of high explosives"
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch"
advanced section
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a
pile of
junk."
"Hell, there are no
rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done,
and why. Then do it."
"If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is
opinion"
"What are the facts? Again and again and again -- what are the
facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget
what the "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the
neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history"
-- what are the facts, and to how many decimal places?
You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your
single clue. Get the facts!"
"One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions."
" Stupidity cannon be cured with money, or through education,
or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't
help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital
crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution
is carried out automatically and without pity."
"Humans are allergic to
change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise."
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an
invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write
a sonnet, balance accounts, built a wall, set a bon, comfort
the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve
equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a
computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects."
"What is right is ever so much important than whom is right." Caution: What is right can easily be disguised as opinion.
"Never appeal to a mans better nature. He may not have one."
enough for now ...
