Friday, July 30, 2010

Come To Think Of It

From Murphy's Law Calendar:

Naeser's Law:
You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof.

Pardo's Third Postulate:
Don't care if you're rich or not, as long as you can live comfortably and have everything you want.

Lieberman's Law:
Everybody lies; but it doesn't matter, since nobody listens.

Churchill's Commentary On Man:
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

First Truth of Management:
No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

Lord Faulkland's Rule:
When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.

Weinberg's Corollary:
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Clarke's Third Law:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Levy's Eight Law:
No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.

The Cardinal Conundrum:
An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds.
A pessimist fears this is true.

Gourd's Axiom:
A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

Ray's Rule for Precision:
Measure with a micrometer.
Mark with chalk.
Cut with an axe.

Matz's Maxim:
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Fagin's Rule on Past Prediction:
Hindsight is an exact science.

Hawkin's Theory of Progress:
Progress does not consist in replacing a theory that is wrong with one that is right. It consists in replacing a theory that is wrong with one that is more subtly wrong.

Hanley's Razor:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Parkinson's Law of Delay:
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

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