Forwards and Fun and Humour06 Jun 2007 04:07 am

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.

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’s Law:
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.

10 Responses to “Practical Laws”

  1. on 06 Jun 2007 at 4:19 am Maha

    Good collectioon of thoughts .

  2. on 06 Jun 2007 at 1:00 pm Mysorean

    Thanks Maha.

  3. on 06 Jun 2007 at 4:10 pm vamC

    Good ones..

  4. on 06 Jun 2007 at 11:03 pm Veena Shivanna

    What are Murphy’s laws then ? :-)

  5. on 07 Jun 2007 at 1:01 am Pixie

    Very nice and so apt alwa? :)

  6. on 07 Jun 2007 at 1:52 am bachodi

    Murphy’s laws are missing.
    Even I started some law’s lately. One day you’ll write my law’s in your blog.

  7. on 07 Jun 2007 at 2:15 am Mysorean

    VamC:
    :)
    Anyones you particularly liked?

    Veena Shivanna:
    These are Murphy’s Laws.

    Pixie:
    nijavAgilu. odta odta namma real life situations ge relate mADidre inna maja barutte! :)

    Bachodi:
    Yes. Sure I will! :)

  8. on 07 Jun 2007 at 11:43 am vamC

    My fav’s from your list are
    Kin Hubbard’s Law and Lieberman’s Law : )

  9. on 08 Jun 2007 at 10:59 am suresh s

    Hi adi, I loved all those Laws!!! But my personal fav is this, “The probability of a question appearing from a topic, in any exam increases exponentially, if u happen to leave that topic unread !!!”. Ella engg studentsgalu idakke jeevanta udaharanegalu!!!

  10. on 17 Jun 2007 at 9:38 am neela

    I especially liked K Hubbard’s…
    My friend is a classic example.

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