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• Keep your sense of humor about your position. -- Donald Rumsfeld
• If you develop rules, never have more than ten. -- Donald Rumsfeld
• If you try to please everybody, somebody is not going to like it. -- Donald Rumsfeld
• If someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know anything about politics," zip up your pockets.
  -- Donald Rumsfeld...
• With the press, it is safest to assume that there is no "off the record." -- Donald Rumsfeld
• Algol 60 was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
  -- C. A. R. Hoare...
• Never say "The White House wants"- buildings don't "want." -- Donald Rumsfeld
• When an idea is being pushed because it is "exciting," "new," or "innovative", beware.
  An exciting, new, innovative idea can also be foolish....
• Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject.