A bit of fun
RUDI'S LAWS
Rudi's Dictum:
If you can quantify it, it is science, if you can't it is art.
Rudi's Theorem:
Problems expand to fill the event.
Rudi's Truism
A gambler can engineer, but an engineer cannot gamble.
Rudi's Reflection
The difference between the artist and the artisan is just a breath of wind.
Rudi's 1st Law:
Everything takes longer than you think.
Rudi's 2nd Law:
Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% preparation.
Rudi's 3rd Law:
In events, nothing ever goes right. Therefore, if everything is going right, something is wrong.
Rudi's 4th Law:
Things get worse under pressure. Things get even worse under wind pressure.
Rudi's 5th Law:
Teamwork is essential, it gives you someone to blame.
Rudi's 6th Law:
Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.
Rudi's 7th Law:
Snow is like sex; you never know how many inches you are going to get or how long it is going to last.
Rudi's 8th Law:
Equipment is unreliable in relation to your need.
Rudi's 9th Law:
Equipment will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
Rudi's 10th Law:
Build a structure that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Rudi's 11th Law:
If the technical instructions are incomplete, get a bigger hammer.
Rudi's 12th Law:
If you want to make a small fortune with an idea, start with a large fortune.
Rudi's 13th Law:
If at first you don't succeed - don't try hang diving.
Rudi's 14th Law
Don't blame someone for being smarter than you are, it isn't their fault.
OTHER OBSERVATIONS
O'Toole's Commentary on Murphy's Law
Murphy was an optimist.
Rudi's Observation on O'Toole's Commentary on Murphy's Law
O'Toole should have kept his nose out.
Meadow's Maxim
You can't push on a rope.
Christie-Davies' Theorem
If your facts are wrong but your logic is perfect, then your conclusions are inevitably false. Therefore, by making mistakes in your logic, you have at least a random chance of coming to a correct conclusion.
Non-Reciprocal Law of Expectations:
Negative expectations yield negative results.
Positive expectations yield negative results.
The Golden Rule:
He who has the gold, makes the rules.
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.
Clarke's Third Law:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Segal's Law:
A man with a watch knows what time it is.
A man with two watches is never sure.
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics:
If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damned near zero.
Peer's Law:
The solution to the problem changes the problem.
Murphy's Law of Moving Heavy Stuff
The more weight you have to carry and the farther you have to carry it all are factors in how much your nose itches.
Murphy's Technology Laws
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totalled correctly after 4:30 p.m. on Friday. The correct total will become self-evident at 8:15 a.m. on Monday.
The only perfect science is hind-sight.
Ibid
There are two kinds of adhesive tape:
that which won't stay on and that which won't come off.
Sources of the borrowed quotes
Coyote's home page
The First Church of Murphy's Law
m-joke.8.com
