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LAWS OF LIFE AND NATURE
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[ Also see Proverbs ]

Vuilleumier's Third Law For Building Electronic Prototypes (a/k/a Selective Gravitational Field): Any tool escaping manipulator's hands will not necessarily follow Earth's gravitational field, but will land in the most unreachable location in the prototype, smashing on its way the most expensive component of the prototype. This will know only one exception if the tool is particularly heavy, in which case it will land on the manipulator's foot.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Weber's Definition: An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Weinberg's First Law: Progress is made on alternate Fridays.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Weiner's Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross references.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Westheimer's Law: A few months in the laboratory can save a few hours in the library.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
      - Law of Life and Nature

When reviewing your notes for a test, the most important ones will be illegible.
      - Law of Life and Nature

When there are sufficient funds in the checking account, checks take two weeks to clear. When there are insufficient funds, checks clear overnight.
      - Law of Life and Nature

When you drop change at a vending machine, the pennies will fall nearby, while all other coins will roll out of sight.
      - Law of Life and Nature

When you drop coins, the pennies will fall nearby, while all the others will roll out of sight.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Whitley's Law of Theoretical Constants: E=mc2 plus or minus 2dB.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Wiker's Law: Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Work is accomplished by those employees who have yet to reach their level of incompetence.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Wyszkowski's Second Law: Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Wyszkowski's Theorem: Regardless of the units used by either the supplier or the customer, the manufacturer shall use his own arbitrary units convertible to those of either the supplier or the customer only by means of weird and unnatural conversion factors.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Wyszowski's First Law: No experiment is reproducible.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Wyszowski's Law: No experiment is reproducible.
      - Law of Life and Nature

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
      - Law of Life and Nature

You never want the one you can afford.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Zimmerman's Law of Complaints: Nobody notices when things go right.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Zymurgy's First Law of Systems Dynamics: Once you open a can of worms, the only way to re-can them is to use a bigger can.
      - Law of Life and Nature

Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labour: People are always available for work in the past tense.
      - Law of Life and Nature

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
      - Henry Louis Mencken

Mencken's Law: Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of improving or saving X, A is a scoundrel.
      - Henry Louis Mencken


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