'Real Life' Laws

Jone's Motto: Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Terman's Law of Innovation: If you want a team to win the high jump, you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot each.

O'brien's Variation: If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

Conway's Law: In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired.

The Peter Principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of incompetence.

H.L.Mencken's Law: Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach.

Martin's Extension: Those who can't teach, administer

Belani's Extrapolation: Those who cannot even administer, become consultants.

Lieberman's Law: Everbody lies; but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.

Kovac's Conundrum: When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.

Van Herpen's Law: The solving of the problem lies in finding the solvers.

Murphy's Law of Government: If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.

Bell's Theorem: When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.

Ruby's Principle of Close Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

Young's Law: Great discoveries are made by mistake.

Kin Hubbard: A good listener is usually thinking about something else

One Anonymous Great Seer's Law : Money can't buy love, but it sure gets you a great bargaining position.