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#4318Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules:
The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of
the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
#4319no brainer:
A decision which, viewed through the retrospectoscope,
is "obvious" to those who failed to make it originally.
#4320no maintenance:
Impossible to fix.
#4321nolo contendere:
A legal term meaning: "I didn't do it, judge, and I'll never do
it again."
#4322nominal egg:
New Yorkerese for expensive.
#4323Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations:
Negative expectations yield negative results.
Positive expectations yield negative results.
#4324Nouvelle cuisine, n.:
French for "not enough food".

Continental breakfast, n.:
English for "not enough food".

Tapas, n.:
Spanish for "not enough food".

Dim Sum, n.:
Chinese for more food than you've ever seen in your entire life.
#4325November, n.:
The eleventh twelfth of a weariness.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
#4326Novinson's Revolutionary Discovery:
When comes the revolution, things will be different --
not better, just different.
#4327Nowlan's Theory:
He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from
the next freeway exit.
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