Entry: Practical Laws Thursday, June 17, 2004



 

·         Jane's Motto:

Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

·         Terman's Law of Innovation:

If you want a team to win the high jump, you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot each.

·         O'brien's Variation:

If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

·         Conway's Law:

In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired.

·         The Peter Principle:

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of incompetence.

·         H.L.Mencken's Law:

Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach.

·         Martin's Extension:

Those who can't teach, administer.

·         Belani's Extrapolation:

Those who cannot even administer, become consultants.

·         Lieberman's Law:

Everybody lies; but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.

·         Kovac's Conundrum:

When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged tone.

·         Van Herpen's Law:

The solving of the problem lies in finding the solvers.

·         Murphy's Law of Government:

If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.

·         Bell's Theorem:

When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.

·         Ruby's Principle of Close Encounters:

The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

·         Young's Law:

Great discoveries are made by mistake.

·         Kin Hubbard:

A good listener is usually thinking about something else

·         One Anonymous Great Seer's Law :

Money can't buy love, but it sure gets you a great bargaining position.

   2 comments

Funny Cartoon
September 1, 2005   12:05 AM PDT
 
Funny Cartoon
Ankz
July 1, 2004   04:47 PM PDT
 
Some KNOWLEDGE<<<this is :-)

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