Parkinson's First Law:
   Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

Parkinson's Second Law:
   Expenditures rise to meet income.

Shanahan's Law:
   The length of a meeting rises with the square
   of the number of people present.

Zymurgy's Seventh Exception to Murphy's Laws:
   When it rains it pours.

Internal consistency is more highly valued than efficiency.

Jenkinson's Law:
  It won't work.

The DREA Law:
   Under the most rigorously controlled conditions,
   the experimental apparatus will do exactly as it pleases.

Skip's Lament:
   Given any problem containing N equations,
   There will be n+1 unknowns.

Finagle's First Law:
   If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.

Finagle's Fourth Law:
   Once a job is messed up,
   anything done to improve it makes it worse.

Cheops' Law:
  Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

Helplessly planned projects take three times longer to complete
than expected; carefully planned projects only twice as long.

Wynne's Law:
  Negative slack tends to increase.

Boren's Law:
  When in doubt, mumble.

Q's Law:
  No matter what stage of completion one reaches in a project,
  the cost of the remainder of the project remains constant.

If computers take over (which seems to be their natural tendency),
it will serve us right.
    ALISTAIR COOKE

The six steps in a project:
  1) Unbounded enthusiasm
  2) Total disillusionment
  3) PANIC!!
  4) Frantic search for the guilty
  5) Punishment of the innocent
  6) Promotion of the uninvolved.