Snover's Maxim

James Snover

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Got a bunch of 'em. What're yours?

"If everything is going along smoothly, according to plan; then there is a much larger, catastrophic problem of which you are not yet aware."

"If it's dumb, but it works, it isn't dumb."

"When the problem seems insurmountable, and everything you have tried doesn't work? Go dumb."

In other words: Forget everything you know, and go back to the brute-simple stuff you never even stop to think about anymore. What has to happen to make event X happen? What has to happen to make event Y happen? Tie all your assumptions to a rock and throw them in the ocean and go back to the basics as if you are learning it for the first time and make the system SHOW you where and how it is going wrong."

"Division is your friend, your very best friend."

Got a room that won't shoot x-rays? What part of it is working? What part isn't? Ok, that subsection that failed: what part of it works, what part isn't? Where does it fail? Ok, THAT bit of it: repeat. Eventually you come down to the broke piece. It's an approach that can take a while, but sooner or later, you find it.

"480-three-phase does not forgive."

It is better to remind your buddy that a system has lethal live voltage, even if you know you don't have to, even if you know it may make him mad, several times; than to explain to his widow at his funeral why you didn't think it was necessary to remind your buddy that one damn time.
 

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"Do you want it done right, or do you want it done right now?"

Always hold yourself to a high standard of quality, even if others around you dont care. At work, in life, everywhere. When youre long dead and buried, people forget the man, but they dont forget how a man lived.
 
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James Snover

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"Do you want it done right, or do you want it done right now?"

Always hold yourself to a high standard of quality, even if others around you dont care. At work, in life, everywhere. When your long dead and buried, people forget the man, but they dont forget how a man lived.[/QUO

Stealing this one! Very appropriate for my line of work, and life in general.
 

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I try to be feisty.

  • “F” is for focus. You need to get focused on what is important and stay focused.
  • “E” is for energy. Bring all the energy you can muster to every situation.
  • “I” is for integrity. This is your most important possession. Don’t ever compromise it.
  • “S” is for solve the problem.Don’t argue. Don’t make excuses. Just solve the problem and get on with it.
  • “T” is for take the blame when no one else will.Accept responsibility and be accountable.
  • “Y” is for “Yes, I do windows.” Don’t ever say, “That’s not my job.” Do whatever the boss asks you to do and do it with enthusiasm.

— General Tommy Franks

https://michaelhyatt.com/leadership-lessons-from-general-tommy-franks/
 

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“If I could do anything, there would not be anything I could not do.”

“We are all naked underneath our clothes.”
 

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Got a million I like that aren't mine. I'd post them, but everyone has likely heard them already.
 

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Life is too short to be miserable.

Be nice to nice people, f@#$ everyone else.

Spiders love fire.

Life is full of inequities but death is our common denominator.

Answer to all my problems, to quote Frank Zappa is Titties and Beer.

Why do I need a handicapped placard? you ask. Because the longer I walk the more my ptsd tells me to start stabbing people in the face.

Walk a mile in my shoes and you will need a wheelchair.

I aint a slow, just deliberate.
 

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TSS think simple stupid. When you have a problem, don't blow it out of proportion, it is usually the most common thing.
Check the ground side. The wierdest problems come from bad grounds.
 

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OK, I'll share a few, even though they aren't maxims that I created:

1) You were given two ears and one mouth. They should be used in that ratio.
2) You can ask for my help, or tell me how you want it done, not both.
3) Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.
4) Measure ten times, cut once.
5) Beer is the answer.....what was the question?
 

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If you know more than a handful of real assholes in your life, it's you that's the problem.
 

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Don't fix it if it ain't broken. I tell my wife this every day. Example: Finds a new recipe for chili, makes it, tastes great. Next time "it was good but I can make it better by adding more.... And it is not better. Just the opposite.
 

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An infinite number of rednecks, shooting an infinite number of shotguns at an infinite number of street signs will eventually reproduce all of the great literary masterworks in Braille.
 

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