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A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
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Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.
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Advice
Allowance
Hands
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The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.
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Hands
Made
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Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
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All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.
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Impossible
Real
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Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.
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Advice
Giving
Law
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No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
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Success
Making Mistakes
Teaching
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Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.
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Accuracy
Courses
Problem
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Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
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Innovation
Law
Levels
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May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
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Looks
May
Past
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The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.
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Age
Comfort
Realization
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Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.
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Airplane
Funny Life
Law
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The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
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Light
Odds
Tunnels
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Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
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Funny
Humor
Law
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A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
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Complexity
Simplicity
Unreliability
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A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.
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Business
Home
Money
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In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.
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Decision
Importance
Information
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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.
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Admonition
Answers
Knows
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The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named Bambi, Infant, Daisycutter, Grasshopper, and Agent Orange. Nor is the trend new: From the past we have Mustard Gas, Angel Chasers [two can-nonballs linked with a chain for added destruction], and the Peacemaker, to name a few.)
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