Sevareid's Law: The chief cause of problems is solutions.
If at first you don't succeed, try something else.
Kitman's Law: Pure drivel tends to drive away ordinary drivel.
Sattinger's Law: It works better if you plug it in.
Osborn's Law: Variables won't; constants aren't.
The Law of Selective Gravity (The Buttered Side Down Law):
An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
Interchangable devices won't.
In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.
Zymurgy's First Law of Evolving System Dynamics:
Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a
larger can.
Anthony's Law of Force:
Don't force it, get a larger hammer.
Any given program, once running, is obsolete.
If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.
You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get
him to float on his back you've got something.
If at first you don't succeed, transform your data set.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless hound.
Westheimer's Time Estimation Rule:
Estimate the time you think it should take, multiply by 2,
and add 3, indpendent of the units of time.
A thing not worth doing isn't worth doing well.
Bye's First Law of Model Railroading:
Anytime you wish to demonstrate something, the number of
faults encountered is proportional to the number of viewers.
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