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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. 
 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. 
 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. 
 Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts 
absolutely.  
 Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts 
absolutely. 
 All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is 
impossible.  
 All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is 
impossible. 
 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. 
 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 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. 
 Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not 
entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the read more 
 Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not 
entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you 
shouldn't have asked the question.