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Carl Durrenberger noticed some word for word similarities between Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson’s unwritten rules (as detailed in this USA Today article about the waiter rule) and those in a book written by a 1944 book called The Unwritten Laws of Engineering. Swanson claims to have written the rules himself during his career at Raytheon.

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