Proverbs and quotes

I stumbled across many proverbs and quotes about project management, some are just fun stuff, but most of them describe reality pretty accurate...

• You can freeze the clients specifications, but you can't freeze their expectations.
• Of several possible interpretations of a communication, the least convenient one is the only correct one.
• No major project is ever installed on time, within budget, and with the same staff that started it.
• The most valuable and least used word in a project manager's vocabulary is "no".
• You can con someone into committing to an impossible deadline, but you cannot con him into meeting it.
• A scope freeze is like the Yeti: it is a myth and would anyway melt when heat is applied.
• Difficult projects are easy, impossible projects are difficult, miracles are a little trickier.
• If you're 6 months late on a milestone due next week but nevertheless really believe you can make it, you're a project manager.
• A little risk management saves a lot of fan cleaning.
• The sooner you get behind schedule, the more time you have to make it up.
• 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.
• Everyone asks for a strong project manager - when they get him they don't want him.
• Fast - cheap - good: pick any two.
• There is such a thing as an unrealistic timescale.
• The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time the last 10% takes the other 90%.
• Meetings are where minutes are kept and hours are lost.
• At some point in the project you're going to have to break down and finally define the requirements.
• The client does not know what he wants until he gets it. Then he knows what he does not want.
• The same work under the same conditions will be estimated differently by ten different estimators, or by one estimator at ten different times.
• The conditions attached to a promise are quickly forgotten, but the promise will always be remembered.
• A client will tell you anything you ask - but nothing more.
• What is not on paper has not been said
• Activity is not progress.
• Having a copy of MS Project makes you a project manager to the same extent that having a copy of MS Word makes you an author.
• To estimate a project, work out how long it would take one person to do it then multiply that by the number of people on the project.