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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane
you want to transfer to is read more
Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane
you want to transfer to is on time.
A free agent is anything but.
A free agent is anything but.
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.
