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Weaver's Law When several reporters share a cab on an assignment, the reporter in the front seat pays for all.
Weaver's Corollary (Doyle's Corollary) No matter how many reporters share a cab, and no matter who pays, each puts the full fare on his own expense account.
Weber-Fechner Law The least change in stimulus necessary to produce a perceptible change in response is proportional to the stimulus already existing.
Weiler's Law Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
Weinberg's Law If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
Weinberg's Corollary An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
Westheimer's Rule To estimate the time it takes to do a task
estimate the time you think it should take, multiply by 2, and change the unit of measure to the next highest unit....
White's Chappaquidick Theorem The sooner and in more detail you announce bad news, the better.
White's Observations of Committee Operation 1) People very rarely think in group
they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises....
White's Statement Don't lose heart... Owen's Comment on White's Statement .
..they might want to cut it out... Byrd's Addition to Owen's Comment on White's Statement ....

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