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• Any ordinarily easy task can be rendered far more difficult with research.
• If one knows what the task is, and there is a time limit allowed for the completion of the task, then one cannot guess how much it will cost.
• Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XXIII -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• Hacker's Law of Personnel Anyone having supervisory responsibility for the completion of a task will invariably protest that more resources are needed.
• Over the shoulder supervision is more a need of the manager than the programming task.
• hrash vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful.
  Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore said to thrash....
• hrash: vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful.
  Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore said to thrash....
• XXI: It's easy to get a loan unless you need it. XXII
  If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice....