Murphy's Third Law:
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong,
and at the worst possible time.
Murphy's Fourth Law:
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong,
the one that will cause the most damage will be the one
to go wrong.
Murphy's Fifth Law:
If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
Murphy's Seventh Law:
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
Murphy's Eighth Law:
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
Chisolm's Third Law, Corollary 1:
If you explain so clearly that no one can misunderstand,
somebody will.
Chisolm's Third Law, Corollary 2:
If you do something which you are sure will meet with
everyone's approval, somebody won't like it.
Crane's Law:
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
Law of Communications:
The result of improved and enlarged communications
is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding.
Lord Falkland's Rule:
When it is not necessary to make a decision,
it is necessary not to make a decision.
Jones' Motto:
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Gumperson's Law:
The probability of anything happening is inversely
proportional to its desirability.
Cole's Law:
Thinly sliced cabbage.
The usefulness of a meeting is inversely proportional
to its attendance.
The Peter Principle:
In every hierarchy, each employee tends to rise to his level
of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an
employee incompetent to execute its duties.
Incompetence knows no barriers of time or place.
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