Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the read more

Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason.

A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason.

Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely.

Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely.

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.

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

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.

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.

Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of.

Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of.

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.