Adages (Some Tongue in Cheek)

An adage is a short, but memorable saying, which holds some important fact of experience that is considered true by many people, or it has gained some credibility through its long use. I enclose some modern adages that are passing as "laws." Please discuss and rate them and give your suggestions.

Adages (Some Tongue in Cheek)

KISS principle: Keep it simple stupid!

Murphy's law: If anything can go wrong, it will.

genghis the hun's first law of RIA: Keep at it long enough and you are going seriously to p*ss someone off!

Sherlock Holmes' Law - After eliminating the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the truth

Benford's law of controversy: Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

First Law of Holes: Stop digging.

genghis the hun's second law of RIA: Idiocy advances as the hour grows late!

Amara's law: We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

Arthur C. Clarke's second law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Ugol's law: If you ever ask "am I the only one who has this kink?" the answer is invariably "no".

Skitt's law: Spelling or grammar flames always contain spelling or grammar errors

Finagle's law: Anything that can go wrong, will.

TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Peter principle: In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Arthur C. Clarke's third law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

First Law of Successfull Bar Pickups: Go ugly early to avoid the rush!

Reilly's law : People generally patronize the largest mall in the area.

Law of accumulation: Everything great and worthwhile in human life is an accumulation of hundreds and sometimes thousands of tiny efforts and sacrifices that nobody ever sees or appreciates.

Parkinson's law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Dilbert Principle: In a company, the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

First Law of Infernal Dynamics: An object in motion will be moving in the wrong direction.

Ralph's observation - It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize that you are in a hurry.

Second Law of Infernal Dynamics: An object at rest will be in the wrong place.

Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Law of Unintended Consequences holds that almost all human actions have at least one unintended consequence.

Second Law of Holes: Don't jump into one you've dug!

Godwin's law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

Shukla's law - Ninety-eight percent of the people in the world are idiots.

Occam's razor - Explanations should never multiply causes without necessity. When two explanations are offered for a phenomenon, the simplest full explanation is preferable.

Sturgeon's law: Ninety percent of everything is crud.

Arthur C. Clarke's first law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Law of conservation of misery: Misery is never created or destroyed, just transformed.

Third law of infernal dynamics: The energy required to move an object in the correct direction, or put it in the right place, will be more than you wish to expend but not so much as to make the task impossible.

Okrent's law: The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.

Harshaw's Law - Daughters can use up to ten percent more money than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.

SSDD: Same sh*t, different day

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