Remember Murphy's Law?
Well, here are LOTS and LOTS of Laws! PART 5
Rosenfield's Regret: The most delicate component will be dropped.
Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
Sattinger's Law: It works better if you plug it in.
Scott's First Law: No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right.
Scott's Second Law: When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found to have been correct in the first place.
Seeger's Law: Anything in parenthesis can be ignored.
Segal's Law: A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
Shaw's Principle: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Shirley's Law: Most people deserve each other.
Slick's First Law of the Universe: Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.
Slick's Second Law of the Universe: A quarter-ounce of chocolate = four pounds of fat.
Slick's Third Law of the Universe: There are two types of dirt--The dark kind, which is attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is attracted to dark objects.
Steen's Law: Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.
Sueker's Note: If you need n items of anything, you will have n - 1 in stock.
The Airplane Law: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.
The First Law of Wing Walking: Never let hold of what you've got until you've got hold of something else.
The Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules.
The Law of Frisbee: The most powerful force in the world is that of a disc straining to land under a car, just out of reach (this force is technically termed "car suck").
The Sausage Principle: People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either one being made.
The Ultimate Law: All general statements are false.
The Whispered Rule: People will believe anything if you whisper it.
Velilind's Laws of Experimentation: 1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. 2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points.
Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
Weinberg's Second Law: While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his.
Weiner's Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross references.
Witten's Law: Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will find a need for them an hour later.
Woltman's Law: Never program and drink beer at the same time.
Worst Vegetable of the Year: The brussels sprout. This is also the worst vegetable of next year.
Wyszowski's Law: No experiment is reproducible.
Zymurgy's First Law of Evolving Systems Dynamics: Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a bigger can.
Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labor: People are always available for work in the past tense.
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