Harold Pinter Rule of Thumb

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false ... a thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

Mohandas Gandhi Rule of Thumb

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Too Much Information Tip ...

There are two things you don't want to watch being made: hot dogs and laws.

[Thank you, Michael J Jindrick]

Arthur Schopenhauer Rule of Thumb

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law ... if it goes past the center of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

Yogi Berra Rule of Thumb

The future ain't what it used to be.

Mephistopheles Rule of Thumb

Everything bad you find on the internet about someone or something you don't like is true ... the good things you find are false.

Abraham Lincoln Rule of Thumb

The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is difficult to verify their authenticity.

Jules Renard Rule of Thumb

If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was ... I would only open my eyes a little bit more.

Thomas Huxley Rule of Thumb

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact!

Joe Morgenstern Rule of Thumb

The Web: where vast numbers of fanboys, apprentice fanatics, and professional grousers turn an endless supply of baseless ­assumptions into groundless ­conclusions.

Paul A. Samuelson Rule of Thumb

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Rule of Thumb

Do not become the archivist of facts ... try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

Glenn Beck Rule of Thumb

Keep the mice with the plague locked up, maybe in a freezer with a lock.

Jenn Kim Rule of Thumb

The key to good research is to keep it simple ... focus on measuring one or two variables at a time to keep things manageable.

Steve Strauss Rule of Thumb

You don't know what you don't know!

Daniel McArthur Rule of Thumb

If a genetic association study contains fewer than 100 subjects, it's not a "milestone" with "major implications" ... in fact, you might as well simply pretend it doesn't exist at all.

George Colony Rule of Thumb

The customer is a rear-view mirror, not a guide to the future.

Galileo Galilei Rule of Thumb

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered ... the point is to discover them.

Aldous Huxley Rule of Thumb

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Guy Hagen Rule of Thumb

To estimate the revenues of a company, multiply the number of full-time employees by $150,000 ... while this is a gross estimation, it is useful for providing a quick order-of-magnitude guess.