On: Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)

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There's a lot of fantastic nuggets in there, that's for sure, but I have a nasty feeling that in a few years time this one will have become firmly entrenched in the vile lexicon of management wank-speak:

31. (Mo's Law of Evolutionary Development) You can't get to the moon by climbing successively taller trees.

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That one's gonna be the new "revolution vs evolution".

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I think there already is:

You can't run a marathon in sprints.

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Heard this one as “you can’t cross the Grand Canyon in Three Easy Steps”