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• If what they've been doing hasn't solved the problem, tell them to do something else.
  -- Gerald Weinberg, "The Secrets of Consulting...
• When I walked into the supermarket the manager got a grocery cart for me.
  I said, "Why do you always give me a cart with a squeaky wheel?...
• 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....
• Any general system law will have at least two particular applications.
  -- The Law of Happy Particularities -- Gerald Weinberg...
• Any general system law will have at least two peculiar exceptions.
  -- The Law of Unhappy Peculiarities -- Gerald Weinberg...
• The departing division general manager met a last time with his young successor and gave him three envelopes.
  My predecessor did this for me, and I'll pass the tradition along to you," he said....