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• The probability of failure is directly proportional to the anxiety of the programmer.
• Homer: [reading screen] "To Start Press Any Key". Where's the ANY key?
  I see Esk ["ESC"], Catarl ["CTRL"], and Pig-Up ["PGUP"]....
• Barber's Laws of Backpacking 1) The integral of the gravitational potential taken around any loop trail you choose to hike always comes out positive.
  2) Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to exactly the point of most pressure....
• Winfield's Dictum of Direction Giving: The possibility of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says "you can't miss it.
• I REALLY like Bugs Bunny. I think I just found out why.
  A local weekly (Metro) had an article on the wascally wabbit's 50th birthday party this year, and they had the following quote about the animation studio where Bugs Bunny cartoons were created....
• The amount of pleasure derived from a cigarette is directly proportional to the number of the non-smokers in the vicinity.
  -- Raj K. Dhawa...
• Brooks's Law: prov. "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" -- a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that i
  proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N)....
• Brooks's Law prov. "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" -- a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting development work among N programmers is O(N) (that i
  proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N)....
• Quote #3 `The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.
  ' -- Mark-Jason Dominus (shouldn't it be "proportional" - larger scope, larger name????)...