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 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. 
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
 Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the 
first word that stuck in his head.  
 Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the 
first word that stuck in his head. 
 All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is 
impossible.  
 All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is 
impossible. 
 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. 
 Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts 
absolutely.  
 Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts 
absolutely. 
 Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know 
there is a problem.  
 Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know 
there is a problem. 
 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. 
 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.