Wolfgang's Third Law:  It can't work.

Don's Axiom: When all else fails, read the instructions.

Si six scies scient six saucissions,
  six cent six scies scieront six cent six saucissions.
  (If 6 saws saw 6 sausages, 606 saws will saw 606 sausages.

Un chasseur sachant chasser chasse sans son chien.
  (A hunter who knows how to hunt hunts without his dog)

Ton the' t'a-t'il ote' ton toux?
  (Did the tea cure your cough?)

Dinon dina, dit on, du dos dodu d'un dodu dindon.
  (Dindon dined, said he, on the fat back of a fat turkey.)

Qui trop embrasse mal entreint. (Grab much, gain little.)

Un tien vaut miex que deux tu l'auras.
  (A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.)

First Law of Advice: The correct advice is to give the advice that is desired.

Third Law of Advice:   Simple advice is the best advice.

"If you put your supper dish to your ear you can hear
the sounds of a restaurant"
     SNOOPY

There is nothing worse than being peerless in a peer-review system.

"Alia jacta est." (The die is cast.)
    JULIUS CAESAR after crossing the Rubicon

"If little else, the brain is an educational toy."
    TOM ROBBINS

"When we first practice to deceive."
    SIR WALTER SCOTT

When in darkness or in doubt,
Run in circles, scream and shout.

The Fourth Law of Computing: On a slow day, you can wait forever.

Sweer's Impossibility Theorem:
   Nothing can be both completely general
   and internally consistent at the same time.

Swap read error, you lose your core image.

Murphy's First Law:
   Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Murphy's Second Law:
   Everything takes longer than you think.