Freebsd Fortunes 5

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would.
The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
                -- Augustine

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they
would.  The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect
that much.
                -- Augustine

Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules:
        The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of
        the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Nirvana?  That's the place where the powers
that be and their friends hang out.
                -- Zonker Harris

Nitwit ideas are for emergencies.  You use them when you've got nothing
else to try.  If they work, they go in the Book.  Otherwise you follow
the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.
                -- Larry Niven, "The Mote in God's Eye"

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
                -- Aesop

No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.

No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
                -- William Blake

no brainer:
        A decision which, viewed through the retrospectoscope,
        is "obvious" to those who failed to make it originally.