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• The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.
  -- John Nie...
• The amount of success is in inverse proportion to the effort in attaining success.
  -- Felix R. Paturi...
• Objectivity increases in direct proportion to the distance from the problem.
• Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
• Failure teaches success.
• Success comes from the threat of failure.
• wave a dead chicken v. To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been expended.
  I'll wave a dead chicken over the source code, but I really think we've run into an OS bug....
• wave a dead chicken: v. To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been expended.
  I'll wave a dead chicken over the source code, but I really think we've run into an OS bug....
• Murphy's Constant: Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.