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• Quote #660 Requirements are like water. They're easier to build on when they're frozen.
• Parkinson's First Law Work expands to fill the time available for its completio
  he thing to be done swells in perceived importance and complexity in a direct ratio with the time to be spent in its completion....
• Quote #548 Intelligences is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
  -- Linus Torvald...
• Quote #629 Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
  -- Bill Gate...
• The only person to get all of his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
• CAI: Acronym for "Computer-Aided Instruction". The modern system of training professional scientists without ever exposing them to the hazards and expense of laboratory work.
  Graduates of CAI-based programs are very good at simulated research....
• Some people are like blisters: they never appear until the work is done.
• Plumbing is one of the easier of do-it-yourself activities, requiring only a few simple tools and a willingness to stick your arm into a clogged toilet.
  In fact, you can solve many home plumbing problems, such as annoying faucet drip, merely by turning up the radio....