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• Drazen's Law of Restitution: The time it takes to rectify a situation is inversely proportional to the time it took to do the damage.
  Example: It takes longer to glue a vase together than to break one....
• Everything takes longer than you think it will. -- Murphy's Law Corollary 2
• Murphy's Second Law: Everything takes longer than you think.
• First Law of Travel: It always takes longer to get there than to get back.
• It always takes longer to get there than to get back. -- First Law of Travel
• overrun n. 1. [techspeak] Term for a frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, esp.
  in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a silo can hold only two characters and the machine takes longer than 2 msec to get to service the interrupt, at least one character will be lost....
• overrun: n. 1. [techspeak] Term for a frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, esp.
  in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a {silo} can hold only two characters and the machine takes longer than 2 msec to get to service the interrupt, at least one character will be lost....
• Murphy's Laws: (1) If anything can go wrong, it will.
  (2) Nothing is as easy as it looks. (3) Everything takes longer than you think it will....