When the going gets tough, everyone leaves. The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut. The quality of correlation is inversely proportional to the density of control. There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Everything takes longer than you think it will. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. And you can't get out of the game. The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.