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Richard's Complimentary Rule of Ownership: If you keep anything long enough you can throw it away. If you throw anything away, you will need it the next day. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Rollin's Rule of Organization: The more you plan, the greater is the confusion when things go wrong. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Rosenfield's Regret: The most delicate component will be dropped. - [Laws of Life and Nature] RT+1 Principle, Corollary: This happens even when you pad the return time with an extra hour. - [Laws of Life and Nature] RT+1 Principle: The scheduled return time of any trip will be one hour earlier than the actual return. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Rule of Reason: If nobody uses it, there's a reason. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Sam Goldwyn's Law: A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Sattinger's Law: It works better if you plug it in. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Say It Again Sam Law, Corollary: You will have just answered the question one minute before it was asked. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Say It Again Sam Law: Even if everything is explained perfectly, there will still be a question. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Scheverezhin's Equation System Theorem: When solving an equation system, the result yielded is x=17x + 1, which is evidently false. Careful recomputation will yield x=x or 1=1. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Schopenhaur's Law of Entropy: If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel full of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get sewage. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Scientific Computations Law: (a) Decimal points are misplaced. (b) Positive powers of ten are in fact negative, and vice-versa. [This law is responsible for interesting results such as 40.8E-3 angstroms for the earth's circumference, or 3.2E2 Gigafarads in an RLC circuit.] - [Laws of Life and Nature] Segal's Law: A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Selective Gravity Law: An object will fall so as to do the most damage. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Self-checking systems tend to have a complexity in proportion to their inherent unreliability. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Sjeverrijk Theorem: In any computation, the value given for certain is wrong. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Skinner's Constant (Flannigan's Finagling Factor): That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to, or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should have gotten. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Slick's First Law of the Universe: Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Slick's Second Law of the Universe: A quarter-ounce of chocolate equals four pounds of fat. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Slick's Third Law of the Universe: There are two types of dirt: the dark kind, which is attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is attracted to dark objects. - [Laws of Life and Nature] SNAFU First Equation, The: Given any problem containing 'n' equations, there will always be 'n+1' unknowns. - [Laws of Life and Nature] SNAFU Fourth Equation, The: Badness comes in waves. - [Laws of Life and Nature] SNAFU Second Equation, The: An object or bit of information most needed will be the least available. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Displaying page 17 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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