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LAW OF LIFE AND NATURE
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Tillis' Organizational Principle: If you file it, you'll know where it is --; but never need it. If you don't file it, you'll need it --; but never know where it is.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Trust everybody . . . then cut the cards.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Two wrongs are only the beginning.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are finite.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Universal Tech Document Units Law: Characteristics, specifications, dimensions and any other data included in technical documents must be stated in exotic units, such as tenth of troy ounce per barn for pressures, or acre times atmosphere per kilogram for speeds.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Van Roy's Law: An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Vuilleumier's Fifth Law For Building Electronic Prototypes: Prototype npn blackboxes actually hold pnp transistors, and vice-versa.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Vuilleumier's First Law For Building Electronic Prototypes: Any pre-cut equipment is too short. This is specially true of optic fiber cables with expensive connectors at both ends.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Vuilleumier's Fourth Law For Building Electronic Prototypes: When a prototype blows up, it will only destroy the most expensive or irreplaceble parts of the prototype, thankfully leaving the fuses intact.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Vuilleumier's Second Law For Building Electronic Prototypes: If n electronic components are required, n-1 are available.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Vuilleumier's Seventh Law For Building Electronic Prototypes: When the prototype has been fully assembled according to lab instructions, a minimum of 11 components are left.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Vuilleumier's Sixth Law For Building Electronic Prototypes: A quartz oscillator oscillates at a frequency off the rated one by a minimum of 25%--if it does oscillate at all.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Vuilleumier's Third Law For Building Electronic Prototypes (a/k/a Selective Gravitational Field): Any tool escaping manipulator's hands will not necessarily follow Earth's gravitational field, but will land in the most unreachable location in the prototype, smashing on its way the most expensive component of the prototype. This will know only one exception if the tool is particularly heavy, in which case it will land on the manipulator's foot.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Weber's Definition: An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Weinberg's First Law: Progress is made on alternate Fridays.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Weiner's Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross references.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Westheimer's Law: A few months in the laboratory can save a few hours in the library.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

When reviewing your notes for a test, the most important ones will be illegible.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

When there are sufficient funds in the checking account, checks take two weeks to clear. When there are insufficient funds, checks clear overnight.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

When you drop change at a vending machine, the pennies will fall nearby, while all other coins will roll out of sight.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]

When you drop coins, the pennies will fall nearby, while all the others will roll out of sight.
      - [Laws of Life and Nature]


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