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• Any general system law will have at least two particular applications.
  -- The Law of Happy Particularities -- Gerald Weinberg...
• The misnaming of fields of study is so common as to lead to what might be general systems laws.
  For example, Frank Harary once suggested the law that any field that had the word "science" in its name was guaranteed thereby not to be a science....
• Weinberg, as a young grocery clerk, advised the grocery manager to get rid of rutabagas which nobody every bought.
  He did so. "Well, kid, that was a great idea," said the manager....
• Exceptions prove the rule - and wreck the budget. -- Miller's Law
• Weinberg's First Law: Progress is made on alternate Fridays.
• Progress is made on alternate Fridays. -- Weinberg's First Law