Goldman's Laws of Data Communications
- You will never know all there is to know in Data Communications.
- Be honest with yourself concerning what you don't know.
- There are no Data Communications police.
- IF the network doesn't make good business sense, it probably makes no sense.
- Technical details are important, technical details are important, technical details are important.
- There is no such thing as a data communications failure, only networking solutions as yet unfounded.
- Beware of self-proclaimed data communications experts.
- It is more important to be able to ask data communications questions than it is to be able to supply data communications answers.
- If you're not moving forward, then you're losing ground to someone who is.
- In data communications, nearly anything is possible. The real question is whether the proposed solution is affordable.
taken from Applied Data Communications, 2nd Edition by James E. Goldman; Wiley Publishing, 1998