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Fyfe's Third Law of Revision, Corollary I: It is usually impractical to worry beforehand about interferences--if you have none, someone will make one for you. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Fyfe's Third Law of Revision: If, when completion of a design is imminent, field dimensions are finally supplied as they actually are, instead of as they were meant to be, it is always simpler to start over from scratch. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Gerrold's First Law of Infernal Dynamics: An object in motion will be heading in the wrong direction. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Gerrold's Law: A little ignorance can go a long way. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Gerrold's Second Law of Infernal Dynamics: An object at rest will be in the wrong place. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Gerrold's Third Law of Infernal Dynamics: The energy required to change either one of these states will always be more than you wish to expend, but never so much as to make the task totally impossible. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Gershwin's Law: It ain't necessarily so. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Ginsberg's Theorem: (1) You can't win. (2) You can't break even. (3) You can't even quit the game. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Glib's Fourth Law of Unreliability: Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Gold's Law: If the shoe fits, it's ugly. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Goodfader's Law: Under any system a few sharpies will beat the rest of us. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Gordon's Object Lifespan Theorem: No matter the amount of care given to a purchased object, it will fuse/explode/disassemble within three (3) days of warranty expiration. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Gordon's Warranty Law: All warranty clauses expires upon bill payment. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Grabel's Law: 2 is not equal to 3--not even for very large values of 2. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Grelb's Commentary: Likelihoods, however, are 90% against you. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Grossman's Law: Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Gunter's First Law of Air Travel: When you are served a meal aboard an aircraft, the aircraft will encounter turbulence. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Gunter's Second Law of Air Travel: The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of you coffee. - [Laws of Life and Nature] H.L. Mencken's Law: For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Hane's Law: There is no limit to how bad things can get. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Hanlon's Razor (Corollary to Finagle's Law): Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Hartley's First Law: The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action. - [Laws of Life and Nature] He who hesitates is probably right. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Heenan's Research Premise: There is no Theory - Practice Gap, there is only Continental Drift (In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is a great deal of difference.) - [Laws of Life and Nature] Displaying page 8 of 20 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
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