anaggh desai
Apr 6
2008

Some Motto; thoughts of authors shared

Posted in Musings |

[1] Jone’s Motto:Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

[2] 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.

[3] 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.

[4] Conway’s Law:

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

[5] 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.

[6] H.L.Mencken’s Law:

Those who can, do. Those who cannot teach.

[7] Martin’s Extension:

Those who can’t teach, administer

[8] Belani’s Extrapolation:

Those who cannot even administer, become consultants.

[9] Lieberman’s Law:

Everbody lies; but it doesn’t matter since nobody listens.

[10] Kovac’s Conundrum:

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

[11] Van Herpen’s Law:

The solving of the problem lies in finding the solvers.

[12] Murphy’s Law of Government:

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

[13] Bell’s Theorem:

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

[14] 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.

[15] Young’s Law:

Great discoveries are made by mistake.

[16] Kin Hubbard:

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Lorenz’s Law of Mechanical Repair:
After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

Anthony’s Law of the Workshop:
Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

Kovac’s Conundrum:
When you dial a wrong number, you never get an busy tone.

Cannon’s Karmic Law:
If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tyre, the next morning you will have a flat tyre.

O’brien’s Variation Law:
If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

Willoughby’s Law:
When you try to prove to someone that a machine won’t work, it will.

Zadra’s Law of Biomechanics:
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

Breda’s Rule:
At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.

Owen’s Law:
As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

Howden’s Law:
You remember you have to mail a letter only when you’re near the mailbox.

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