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A free agent is anything but.
A free agent is anything but.
Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry.
Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry.
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.
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.
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 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.
Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the answer.
Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the answer.
A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And never read more
Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman
who's got more troubles than you.