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| #4191 | | laser, n.:
Failed death ray.
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| #4192 | | Laura's Law:
No child throws up in the bathroom.
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| #4193 | | Law of Communications:
The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communications
between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased
area of misunderstanding.
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| #4194 | | Law of Continuity:
Experiments should be reproducible. They should all fail the same way.
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| #4195 | | Law of Procrastination:
Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has
the feeling that there is nothing important to do.
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| #4196 | | Law of Selective Gravity:
An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
Jenning's Corollary:
The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side
down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
Law of the Perversity of Nature:
You cannot determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.
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| #4197 | | Law of the Jungle:
He who hesitates is lunch.
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| #4198 | | Laws of Computer Programming:
(1) Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
(2) Any given program costs more and takes longer.
(3) If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
(4) If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
(5) Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
(6) The value of a program is proportional the weight of its output.
(7) Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of
the programmer who must maintain it.
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| #4199 | | Laws of Serendipity:
(1) In order to discover anything, you must be looking for something.
(2) If you wish to make an improved product, you must already
be engaged in making an inferior one.
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| #4200 | | lawsuit, n.:
A machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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