ARNEY'S LAW
-- Every time you come up with a great idea you will find someone else thought of it first.

BLAKE'S LAW
-- If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will go wrong is the one that will do the most damage.

BOREN'S LAW
-- When in doubt, mumble.

CHISHOLM'S 2nd LAW
-- Any time things appear to be going well, you have overlooked something.

CONWAY'S LAW
-- In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired.

CORNFORD'S LAW
-- One must never do anything for the first time, lest it establish a precedent.

DEMO'S LAW
-- Everything you decide to do costs more than first estimated.

DENNISTON'S LAW
-- Virtue is its own punishment.

ETORRE'S OBSERVATION
-- The other line moves faster.

FINSTER'S LAW
-- A closed mouth gathers no feet.

GREEN'S LAW
-- Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about.

GLYME'S FORMULA FOR SUCCESS
-- The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

HANLON'S RAZOR
-- Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

HARRISBERGER'S FOURTH LAW OF THE LAB
-- Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.

HARRISON'S PASTULATE
-- For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

HOWE'S LAW
-- Every man has a scheme that will not work.

HUGHES' PARADOX
-- With more choices you end up with more wrong answers.

JENKINSON'S LAW
-- It won't work.

LAW OF SELECTIVE GRAVITY
-- An object will fall so as to do the most damage.

JENNING'S COROLLARY
-- The chance of bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

JACKSON'S LAW
-- With a big enough hammer you can break anything.

JUHANI'S LAW
-- The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

LINDBERG'S "PRINCIPLE OF THE VITAL FEW"
-- 99% of the work/mistakes is accomplished by 10% of the workforce.

LIEBERMAN'S LAW
-- Everybody lies; but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.

MAIER'S LAW
-- If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.

MASON'S FIRST LAW OF SYNERGISM
-- The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.

MURPHY'S LAW
-- If anything can go wrong, it will.
-- Nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
-- Outgo always rises to exceed income.
-- If you try to please everyone, someone isn't going to like it.
-- It is a fundamental law of nature that nothing ever quite works out.
-- It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
-- If you explain something so clearly that no one can misunderstand, someone will.
-- Whatever you want to do now, you have to do something else first.
-- No good deed goes unpunished.
-- The probability of an occurrence is in inverse ratio to its desirability.

MURPHY'S 2nd LAW
-- The probability of failure is directly proportional to the number and importance of the people watching the test.

MUIR'S LAW
-- When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

OGDEN'S LAW
-- The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

OLIVIER'S LAW
-- Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

OLIVER'S LAW OF LOCATION
-- No matter where you go, there you are.

O'REILLY'S LAW OF THE KITCHEN
-- Cleanliness is next to impossible.

O'TOOL'S COMMENTARY ON MURPHY'S LAW
-- Murphy was an optimist.

PARKINSON'S LAWS
-- Any organization that grows to a thousand people no longer has need of contact with the outside world.
-- Work expands to fill the time available.

THE PETER PRINCIPLE
-- In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

PUDDER'S LAW
-- Anything that begins well, ends badly.

SHANAHAN'S LAW
-- The length of a meeting increases with the square of the number of people present.

SHAW’S OBSERVATION
-- Those who can, do; while those who can’t, teach.

STEEN'S LAW
-- Left to themselves things will always go from bad to worse.

STEWART'S LAW OF RETROACTION
-- It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

TREEMAN'S LAW
-- Every activity takes more time than you have.

WATSON'S LAW
-- Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

WEILER'S LAW
-- Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

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