Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty.  Freeman’s extension:..but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.

1) Anyone can make a decision given enough facts;

2) A good manager can make a decision without enough facts;

3) A perfect manager can operate in perfect ignorance.

Project teams detest weekly progress reporting because it so vividly manifests their lack of progress.