GIGA THE MOST EXTENSIVE
COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
Home
Page
GIGA
Quotes
Biographical
Name Index
Chronological
Name Index
Topic
List
Reading
List
Site
Notes
Crossword
Solver
Anagram
Solver
Subanagram
Solver
LexiThink
Game
Anagram
Game
TOPICS:           A    B    C    D    E    F    G    H    I    J    K    L    M    N    O    P    Q    R    S    T    U    V    W    X    Y    Z 
PEOPLE:     #    A    B    C    D    E    F    G    H    I    J    K    L    M    N    O    P    Q    R    S    T    U    V    W    X    Y    Z 

LAWS OF LIFE AND NATURE
 << Prev Page    Displaying page 11 of 21    Next Page >> 
[ Also see Proverbs ]

Kennedy's Law: Excessive official restraints on information are inevitably self-defeating and productive of headaches for the officials concerned.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Kent's Law: The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Kerr-Martin First Law: In dealing with their "own" problems, faculty members are the most extreme conservatives.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Kerr-Martin Second Law: In dealing with "other" people's problems, they are the world's most extreme liberals.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Kettering's First Law: If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Kettering's Second Law: If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Key to Status: S = D/K. S is the status of a person in an organization, D is the number of doors he must open to perform his job, and K is the number of keys he carries. A higher number denotes higher status. Thus the janitor needs to open 20 doors and has 20 keys (S = 1), a secretary has to open two doors with one (S = 2), but the president never has to carry any keys since there is always someone around to open doors for him (with K=0 and a high D, his S reaches infinity).
      - Law of Life and Nature

Keyes Rule of Misquotation Axiom 1: Any quotation that can be altered will be.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Keyes Rule of Misquotation Axiom 2: Famous quotes need famous mouths.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 1A: Vivid words hook misquotes in the mind.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 1B: Numbers are hard to keep straight.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 1C: Small changes can have a big impact (or: what a difference an a makes).
      - Law of Life and Nature

Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 1D: If noted figures don't say what needs to be said, we'll say it for them.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 1E: Journalists are a less than dependable source of accurate quotes.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 1F: Famous dead people make excellent commentators on current events.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 2A: Well-known messengers get credit for clever comments they report from less celebrated mouths.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 2B: Particularly quotable figures receive more than their share of quotable quotes.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 2C: Comments made about someone might as well have been said by that person.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 2D: Who you think said something may depend on where you live.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 2E: Vintage quotes are considered to be in the public domain.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 2F: In a pinch, any orphan quote can be called a Chinese proverb.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Kharasch's Institutional Imperative, Corollary: The expert judgment of an institution, when the matter involved concerns continuation of the institution's operations, is totally predictable, and hence the finding is totally worthless.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Kharasch's Institutional Imperative: Every action or decision of an institution must be intended to keep the institution machinery working.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Kirkland's Law: The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Kitman's Law: On the TV screen, pure drivel tends to drive off ordinary drivel.
      - Law of Life and Nature


Displaying page 11 of 21 for this topic:   << Prev  Next >>  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11] 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

The GIGA name and the GIGA logo are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
GIGA-USA and GIGA-USA.COM are servicemarks of the domain owner.
Copyright © 1999-2018 John C. Shepard. All Rights Reserved.
Last Revised: 2018 December 9




Support GIGA.  Buy something from Amazon.


Click > HERE < to report errors