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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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