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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