;REMEMBER THESE LAWS, THEY WILL CERTAINLY ;REMEMBER YOU. ; Crittendon`s 14th application of Murphy`s First Law: You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter. Ginsberg`s Theorems: 1) You can`t win. 2) You can`t break even. 3) You can`t even quit the game. Weiler`s Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn`t have to do it himself. Chisolm`s Third Law, Corollary 3: Procedures designed to implement the purpose won`t quite work. O`Toole`s Commentary on Murphy`s Laws: Murphy was an optimist. Sevareid`s Law: The chief cause of problems is solutions. Kitman`s Law: Pure drivel tends to drive away ordinary drivel. Sattinger`s Law: It works better if you plug it in. Osborn`s Law: Variables won`t; constants aren`t. The Law of Selective Gravity (The Buttered Side Down Law): An object will fall so as to do the most damage. Zymurgy`s First Law of Evolving System Dynamics: Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a larger can. Anthony`s Law of Force: Don`t force it, get a larger hammer. Westheimer`s Time Estimation Rule: Estimate the time you think it should take, multiply by 2, add 3, and change the unit of measure to the next higher unit. Bye`s First Law of Model Railroading: Anytime you wish to demonstrate something, the number of faults encountered is proportional to the number of viewers. Wolfgang`s Third Law: It can`t work. Don`s Axiom: When all else fails, read the instructions. First Law of Advice: The correct advice is to give the advice that is desired. Third Law of Advice: Simple advice is the best advice. The Fourth Law of Computing: On a slow day, you can wait forever. Sweer`s Impossibility Theorem: Nothing can be both completely general and internally consistent at the same time. Murphy`s First Law: Nothing is as easy as it looks. Murphy`s Second Law: Everything takes longer than you think. Murphy`s Third Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time. Murphy`s Fourth Law: If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. Murphy`s Fifth Law: If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway. Murphy`s Seventh Law: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy`s Eighth Law: If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. Chisolm`s Third Law, Corollary 1: If you explain so clearly that no one can misunderstand, somebody will. Chisolm`s Third Law, Corollary 2: If you do something which you are sure will meet with everyone`s approval, somebody won`t like it. Crane`s Law: There ain`t no such thing as a free lunch. Law of Communications: The result of improved and enlarged communications is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding. Lord Falkland`s Rule: When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision. Jones` Motto: Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. Gumperson`s Law: The probability of anything happening is inversely proportional to its desirability. The Peter Principle: In every hierarchy, each employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to execute its duties. Parkinson`s First Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. Parkinson`s Second Law: Expenditures rise to meet income. Shanahan`s Law: The length of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present. Zymurgy,s Seventh Exception to Murphy`s Laws: When it rains it pours. Jenkinson`s Law: It won`t work. The DREA Law: Under the most rigorously controlled conditions,the experimental apparatus will do exactly as it pleases. Skip`s Lament: Given any problem containing N equations, There will be n+1 unknowns. Finagle`s First Law: If an experiment works, something has gone wrong. Finagle`s Fourth Law: Once a job is messed up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. Cheops` Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. Wynne`s Law: Negative slack tends to increase. Boren`s Law: When in doubt, mumble. Q`s Law: No matter what stage of completion one reaches in a project, the cost of the remainder of the project remains constant.