Remember Murphy's Law?
Well, here are LOTS and LOTS of Laws! PART 4
Maier's Law: If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.
Main's Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Manly's Maxim: Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
Meader's Law: Whatever happens to you, it will previously have happened to everyone you know, only more so.
Merkin's Maxim: When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue.
Mitchell's Law of Committees: Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough meetings are held to discuss it.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering: Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mr. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; yet the population is growing.
MURPHY'S LAW: If anything can go wrong, it will.
Murphy's Law is recursive: Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
Murphy's First Corollary: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
Murphy's Second Corollary: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious
Murphy's Constant: Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value
Murphy's Statement on the Power of Negative Thinking: It is impossible for an optimist to be pleasantly surprised.
Silver's law: If Murphy's law can go wrong it will.
Nash's Law: Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long.
Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
O'Toole's Commentary: Murphy was an optimist.
Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Origin of "seminar": from 'semi' and 'arse', hence, any half-assed discussion.
Osborn's Law: Variables won't; constants aren't.
Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.
Paul's Second Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up.
Paul's Other Law: In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.
Perkin's Postulate: The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
Peter's Placebo: An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.
Pohl's Law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.
Pournelle's Law of Costs and Schedules: Everything costs more and takes longer.
Preudhomme's Law of Window Cleaning: It's on the other side.
Purmal's Corollary: As the limit of (Brains x Beauty) goes to infinity, availability goes to zero.
Putt's Law: (1) Technology is dominated by two types of people: 1. Those who understand what they do not manage. 2. Those who manage what they do not understand.
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