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• At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organisa- tion, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.
  -- Brien's First Law...
• Every great improvement has come after repeated failures.
  Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are fingerposts on the road to achievement....
• Some of you may discover a wonderful vocation you never even imagined.
  Others may find out that life isn't fair... [turning bitter] in spite of your Masters from Bryn Mawr, you might end up a glorified babysitter to a bunch of dead-eyed fourth-graders while your husband runs naked on a beach with your marriage counselor!...
• Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
• Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. -- Parkinson's First Law
• Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason.
  ... The law, which is perfection of reason. -- Sir Edward Coke (1549-1634) -- First Institute...
• prototype, n. First stage in the life cycle of a computer product, followed by pre-alpha, alpha, beta, release version, corrected release version, upgrade, corrected upgrade, etc.
  Unlike its successors, the prototype is not expected to work....
• Every time I find out the meaning of life, they change it.
• jiffy n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on your computer (see tick).
  Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U....