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Law Number XXXVII: Ninety percent of the time things will turn out worse than you expect. The other 10 percent of the time you had no right to expect so much.
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Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.
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Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.
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Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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July 27, 1935
(age 89)
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