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A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
 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. 
 Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended 
it to happen.  
 Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended 
it to happen. 
 Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a 
time.  
 Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a 
time. 
 Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum 
tolerable well being.  
 Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum 
tolerable well being. 
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
 Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts 
absolutely.  
 Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts 
absolutely. 
 About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the 
ends.  
 About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the 
ends. 
 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.