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# A badly planned project will take three times longer than expected - a well planned project only twice as long as expected."
# "A change freeze is like the abominable snowman: it is a myth and would anyway melt when heat is applied."
# "A little risk management saves a lot of fan cleaning."
# "A minute saved at the start is just as effective as one saved at the end."
# "A problem shared is a buck passed."
# "A project ain't over until the fat cheque is cashed."
# "A project gets a year late one day at a time."
# "A project is one small step for the project sponsor, one giant leap for the project manager."
# "A two year project will take three years, a three year project will never finish "
# "A user is somebody who tells you what they want the day you give them what they asked for."
# "A user will tell you anything you ask about, but nothing more."
# "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
# "Activity is not achievement."
# "All project managers face problems on Monday mornings - good project managers are working on next Monday's problems."
# "Any project can be estimated accurately (once it's completed)."
# "Anything that can be changed will be changed until there is no time left to change anything."
# "At the heart of every large project is a small project trying to get out."
# "Estimators do it in groups - bottom up and top down."
# "Everyone asks for a strong project manager - when they get him they don't want him."
# "Fast - cheap - good: you can have any two."
# "Feather and down are padding - changes and contingencies will be real events."
# "Finely chopped cabbage in mayonnaise - Coleslaw."
# "For a project manager overruns are as certain as death and taxes."
# "Furious activity does not necessarily equate to progress and is no substitute for understanding."
# "Good control reveals problems early - which only means you'll have longer to worry about them."
# "Good estimators aren't modest: if it's huge they say so."
# "Good project management is not so much knowing what to do and when, as knowing what excuses to give and when."
# "Good project managers admit mistakes: that's why you so rarely meet a good project manager."
# "Good project managers know when not to manage a project."
# "I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant."
# "If an IT project works the first time, it is wrong."
# "If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried."
# "If everything is going exactly to plan, something somewhere is going massively wrong."
# "If it can't possibly go wrong, it will - O'Malley's corollary to Murphy's law."
# "If it can go wrong it will - Murphy's law."
# "If it happens once it's ignorance, if it happens twice it's neglect, if it happens three times it's policy."
# "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck."
# "If it wasn't for the 'last minute', nothing would get done."
# "If project content is allowed to change freely the rate of change will exceed the rate of progress."
# "If there is a 50% chance of something going wrong then 9 times out of 10 it will."
# "If there is anything to do, do it! "
# "If there were no problem people there'd be no need for people who solve problems."
# "If you're 6 months late on a milestone due next week but really believe you can make it, you're a project manager."
# "If you can interpret project status data in several different ways, only the most painful interpretation will be correct."
# "If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs, you haven't understood the plan."
# "If you don't attack the risks, the risks will attack you."
# "If you don't know how to do a task, start it, then ten people who know less than you will tell you how to do it."
# "If you don't plan, it doesn't work. If you do plan, it doesn't work either. Why plan!"
# "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
# "If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there."
# "If you fail to plan you are planning to fail."
# "If you have time to do it over again, you'll never get away with doing it right the first time."
# "It's not the hours that count, it's what you do in those hours."
# "It takes one woman nine months to have a baby. It cannot be done in one month by impregnating nine women (although it is more fun trying)."
# "It will go wrong in the worst possible way - Sod's law."
# "Managing IT people is like herding cats."
# "Metrics are learned men's excuses."
# "Murphy, O'Malley, Sod and Parkinson are alive and well - and working on your project."
# "Never underestimate the ability of senior management to buy a bad idea and fail to buy a good idea."
# "No plan ever survived contact with the enemy."
# "No project has ever finished on time, within budget, to requirement - yours won't be the first to."
# "Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it."
# "Of several possible interpretations of a communication, the least convenient is the correct one."
# "Overtime is a figment of the naïve project manager's imagination."
# "People under pressure do not think faster."
# "Planning is an unnatural process, doing something is much more fun."
# "Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal."
# "Powerful project managers don't solve problems, they get rid of them."
# "Projects happen in two ways: a) Planned and then executed or b) Executed, stopped, planned and then executed."
# "Quantitative project management is for predicting cost and schedule overruns well in advance."