Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be coming read more

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,
And heavily in clouds brings on the day,
The great, read more

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,
And heavily in clouds brings on the day,
The great, the important day, big with the fate
Of Cato, and of Rome.

Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the writer.

The wine is poured, you should drink it.
[Fr., Le vin est verse, il faut le boire.]

The wine is poured, you should drink it.
[Fr., Le vin est verse, il faut le boire.]