MURPHY'S lAW
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If anything can go wrong, it will.
O'TOOL'S COMMENTARY ON MURPHY'S LAW
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Murphy was an optimist.
THE UNSPEAKABLE LAW
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As soon as you mention something ....
... if it's good, it goes away
... if it's bad, it happens.
NONRECIPROCAL LAWS OF EXPECTATIONS
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Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations
yield negative results.
HOWE'S LAW
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Every man has a scheme that will not work.
ZYMURGY'S FIRST LAW OF EVOLVING SYSTEMS DYNAMICS
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Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a
larger can.
ETORRE'S OBSERVATION
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The other line moves faster.
SKINNER'S CONSTANT (FLANAGAN'S FINAGLING FACTOR)
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That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to, or
subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should
have got.
MURPHY'S LAW OF SELECTIVE GRAVITY
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An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
JENNING'S COROLLARY TO MURPHY'S LAW OF SELECTIVE GRAVITY
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The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down
is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
GORDON'S FIRST LAW
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If a research project is not worth doing at all, it is not worth
doing well.
MAIER'S LAW
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If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.
HOARE'S LAW OF LARGE PROBLEMS
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Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
BOREN'S FIRST LAW
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When in doubt, mumble.
THE GOLDEN RULE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
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Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
BARTH'S DISTINCTION
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There are two types of people: those who divide people into two
types, and those who don't
SEGAL'S LAW
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A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is
never sure.
THE NINETY-NINETY RULE OF PROJECT SCHEDULES
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The first 90 % of the task takes 90 % of the time, and the last 10 %
takes the other 90 %
FARBER'S FOURTH LAW
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Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.
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