All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry.

Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen.

Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.