(0) For every fundamental truth, there exists a counterexample: (1) It Has To Work. Counterexample: U.S. healthcare. (2a) No matter how hard you try, you can

(0) For every fundamental truth, there exists a counterexample: (1) It Has To Work. Counterexample: U.S. healthcare. (2a) No matter how hard you try, you can't make a baby in much less than 9 months. Counterexample: adoption. (3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. Counterexample: Who cares? </resumes eating his BLT> (4) Some things in life can never be fully appreciated nor understood unless experienced firsthand. Counterexample: Microsoft Windows. (5) It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea. Counterexample: U.S. Constitution. 6. It is easier to move a problem around (for example, by moving the problem to a different part of the overall network architecture) than it is to solve it. Counterexample: Joe Biden's speeches. (7a) (corollary). Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three). Counterexample: Five Guys. (8) It is more complicated than you think. Counterexample: "All you lawyers do is complicate situations that aren't complicated." - Erin Brokovich 9. For all resources, whatever it is, you need more. Counterexample: calories. (10) One size never fits all. Counterexample: Pencil and paper. (11) Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works. Counterexample: suicide. (12) In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Counterexample: Hacker News.