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Law Number XLI: The more one produces, the less one gets.

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Law Number XXI: It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.

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Law Number XLIX: Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

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Law Number XXXIII: Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

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Law Number XLIII: Hardware works best when it matters the least.

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Law Number IV: If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.

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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

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Law Number VI: A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

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Law Number XL: Most projects start out slowly, and then sort of taper off.

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Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.

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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

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Law Number XXXVIII: The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

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Law Number XXVII: Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

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Law Number XLII: Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.

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Law Number VII: Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

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Law Number X: Bulls do not win bullfights; people do. People do not win people fights; lawyers do.

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Law Number XXIII: Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

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Law Number XXII: If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

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Law Number VIII: The most unsuccessful four years in the education of a cost-estimator is fifth grade arithmetic.

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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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Law Number XXV: A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

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Law Number XLV: One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

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Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.

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Law Number I: 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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Law Number LI: By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

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Law Number II: 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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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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Law Number XLVII: Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

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Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.

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Law Number XXX: By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

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