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• When the prototype has been fully assembled according to lab instructions, a minimum of 11 components are left.
  -- Vuilleumier's Seventh Law...
• No plan survives the first contact intact.
• Any pre-cut equipment is too short. This is specially true of optic fiber cables with expensive connectors at both ends.
  -- Vuilleumier's First Law...
• leaving is much more difficult than entering. -- First Law of Hacking
• First Law of Hacking: leaving is much more difficult than entering.
• The first function of a bureaucracy is to keep intact the bureaucracy.
• If n electronic components are required, n-1 are available. -- Vuilleumier's Second Law
• A quartz oscillator oscillates at a frequency off the rated one by a minimum of 25% if it does oscillate at all.
  -- Vuilleumier's Sixth Law...
• Prototype npn blackboxes actually hold pnp transistors, and vice-versa. -- Vuilleumier's Fifth Law