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Way Out Rule Always leave room to add an explanation if it does not work out.
Clarke's Law Of
Revolutionary Ideas
1) It's impossible - don't waste my time.
2) It's possible, but not worth doing.
3) I said it was good all along.
Jones's Motto Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Bill Jones's Motto It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
Parker's Law Of
Political Statements
The truth of any proposition has nothing to do with its credibility, and vice versa.
Mr Cole's Axiom The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
Law Of The Individual Nobody really cares or understands what anyone else is doing.
The Ultimate Principle By definition, when you are investigating the unknown, you do not know what you may find.
Lilly's Metalaw All laws are simulations of reality.
Cole's Law Thinly sliced cabbage.
Bucy's Law Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable person.
Matsch's Law It's better to have a horrible ending than have horrors without end.
First Law Of
Expense Accounts
Shared expenses should always be claimed (in full) on each employee's expense account.
Haldanes's Law The universe is not only queerer than we imagine, but it is queerer than we CAN imagine.
Kerr-Martin Law People are extremely conservative in dealing with their own problems, extremely radical with other people's problems.
Law Of Observation Nothing looks as good close up as it does from far away. And vice-versa.
Lawyer's Law A proliferation of new laws creates a proliferation of new loopholes.
Katz's Law People and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
Parker's Law Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
IBM Pollyanna Principle Machines should work, people should think.
Law Of The Perversity
Of Nature
You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.
Law Of Selective Gravity Light things fall farther under the bench. Heavy things fall on your toes, before joining light things.
Sattinger's Law Of
Trouble-Shooting
It works better if you plug it in.
Anthony's Law Of Force Do not force it. Get a bigger hammer.
Cahl's Axiom When all else fails, read the instructions.
Jenkinson's Law Of Perversity It just won't work.
Schmidt's Law If you mess with anything long enough, it will break.
Gilb's Law Of
Unreliability # 1
Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
Gilb's Law Of
Unreliability # 2
Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.
Gilb's Law Of
Unreliability # 3
Undetectable errors are infinite in variety. Detectable errors are, by definition, more limited.
Gilb's Law Of
Unreliability # 4
Investment in reliability increases to eventually exceed the probable cost of errors.
Golub's Law Of
Project Planning
Poorly planned projects take three time longer to complete than expected.
Well planned projects take only twice as long
Law Of Full Steam Ahead The effort required to correct course increases geometrically with time.
Snafu Equation # 1 Any problem containing 'n' equations will be found to have 'n+1' unknowns.
Snafu Equation # 2 The bit of information most needed at any given time will be that which will take the longest time to produce.
Snafu Equation # 3 After you have failed to solve a seemingly intractable problem, a simple solution will be obvious to everyone else.
Flannigan's Finagling Factor That quantity which, when applied mathematically to your result, gives you the answer you really want.
Miksch's Certainty If a string has one end, then it has another end.
Boob's Law You always find something in the last place you look. Because you stop looking.
Sturgeon's Law 90% of everything is definitely crud. The other 10% is suspect.
Pudder's Law Anything that begins well, ends badly.
Anything that begins badly, ends worse.
Stockmayer's Theorem If it looks easy, it's tough.
If it looks tough, it's damn well impossible.
Silverman's Paradox If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
Cardinal Conundrum The Optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. The Pessimist fears this is true.
Murphy's Law Of
Multi-Lane Highways
After you succeed in changing lanes, your new lane immediately slows down.
Fagin's Rule Hindsight is an exact science.
Inverse To Murphy's Law If anything can't go wrong, it will.
Farnsdick's Corollary After things have gone from bad to worse, the cycle will repeat itself ... endlessly.
Extended Murphy's Law If a series of events can go wrong, it will do so in the worst possible sequence.
Gattuso's Extension To
Murphy's Law
Nothing is ever so bad that it can't get worse.
Lynch's Law When the going gets tough, everybody leaves.
Evan's And Bjorn's Law No matter what goes wrong, there is always somebody who knew it would.
Law Of Revelation The hidden flaw never remains hidden.
Langsam's Laws 1) Everything depends.
2) Nothing is always.
3) Everything is sometimes.
Benedict's Principle Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
Hellrung's Law If you wait, it will go away, ... having done its damage. If it was bad, it will be back.
Grossman's Misquote
Of H.L.Mencken
Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, but WRONG answers.
Ducharme's Precept Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment.
Law Of The Search The first place to look for anything is the last place you would expect to find it.
First Postulate Of
Iso-Murphism
Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other.
Mary-Ann's Law You can always find what you are NOT looking for.
Rune's Rule If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.
Coit-Murphy's Statement It is impossible for an optimist to be pleasantly surprised.


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