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.

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.

A free agent is anything but.

A free agent is anything but.

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.

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.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be coming read more

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.

Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.

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.