Laws

Bye's First Law Of Model RailRoading:
Anytime you wish to demonstrate something
the number of faults is proportional to the 
number of viewers.

Comins' Law:
People will accept your idea much more readily
if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Evvie Nef's Law:
There is a solution to every problem; the only 
difficulty is finding it.

Gordon's First Law:
If a research project is not worth doing,
it is not worth doing well.

Harver's Law:
A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

Issawi's Law Of Frustration:
One cannot make an omelette without breaking a 
few eggs - but it is amazing how many eggs one can 
break without making a decent omelette.

Lubin's Law:
If another scientist thought your research was 
more important than his, he would drop what he was 
doing and do what you are doing.

Matsch's Law:
It is better to have a horrible ending than to 
have horrors without end.

Maugham's Law:
Only a mediocre person is always at his/her best.

Parson's Laws:
1) If you break a cup or plate,it will not
be the one that  was already chipped or cracked. 
2) A place you want to get to is always just 
off the edge of the map you happen to have handy.
3) A meeting lasts at least 1.5 hours, however
short the agenda.

Peter's Law Of Substitution:
Look after the molehills and the mountains will 
take care of themselves.

Otten's Law Of Testimony:
When a person says that,in the interest of saving time,he 
will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only
three times as long as if he had read the statement in the 
first place.

Potter's Law:
The amount of flak recieved on any subject is inversely
proportional to the subject's true value.

Poulsen's Law:
When anything is used to its full potential, it will break.

Ryan's Law:
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you 
will establish yourself as an expert.

Scott's First Law:
 
No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right.

Umbrella Law:
You will need three umbrellas; one to leave at the office,
one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train / bus.

Unnamed Law:
If it happens, it must be possible.