"Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters."
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"Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation."
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"Hardware works best when it matters the least."
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"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank."
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"People do not win people fights. Lawyers do."
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"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."
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"The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten."
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"Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases."
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"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"
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"Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D."
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"The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all of your time talking about nothing."
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"One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected."
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"Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green.""
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"Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output."
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"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."
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"For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction."
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"If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was."
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"Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base."
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"It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished."
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"If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice."
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