Don't worry: Wu Meng-kui, who sees "nothing succeeds like success" as the most fitting footnote to the Mucha line saga, brings out an old sheet of paper from his book-lined study, on which in early 1993, when DORTS 'troubles were looming on the horizon, an American engineer wrote a list of immutable "project lifecycle rules" to raise everyone's spirits.
不必懊惱，以「一將功成萬骨枯」為木柵線下了註腳的吳夢桂，在汗牛充棟的書房裡翻出一張老舊紙頭，上面是八十二年初捷運局山雨欲來的前夕，一位美籍工程師替大家打氣的「捷運鐵律」。