First Law of Laboratory Work:
Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass.
Handy Guide to Modern Science:
1. If it's green or it wiggles, it's biology.
2. If it stinks, it's chemistry.
3. If it doesn't work, it's physics.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
The Sausage Principle:
People who love sausage and respect the law
should never watch either one being made.
Horngren's Observation: (generalized)
The real world is a special case.
Merkin's Maxim:
When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue.
Hawkin's Theory of Progress:
Progress does not consist of replacing a theory that is wrong
with one that is right. It consists of replacing a theory that is
wrong with one that is more subtly wrong.
Never attribute to malice that which is
adequately explained by stupidity.
Matz's warning:
Beware of the physician who is great at getting out of trouble.
Gold's Law:
If the shoe fits, it's ugly.
Lewis' Law:
People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
Law of Reruns:
If you have watched a TV series only once, and you watch
it again, it will be a rerun of the same episode.
Shirley's Law:
Most people deserve each other.
Forgive and remember.
Woltman's Law:
Never program and drink beer at the same time.
Gallois' Revelation:
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out
but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a
very expensive machine, is somehow enobled, and no one dares
to criticize it.
Galbraith's Law of Political Wisdom:
Anyone who says he is not going to resign, four times, definitely will.
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