(Eleanor) Roosevelt’s Second Law
Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Behn’s Law
Aphra Behn
Here today, gone tomorrow.
Murphy’s Second Military Law
Edward A. Murphy
Friendly fire isn’t.
Parkinson’s Third Law
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay; or to put it even more plainly - the more complex, the sooner dead (Inlaws and Outlaws 1962). This law often is glossed: Growth leads to complexity and complexity to decay.
Quincy’s Law
Josiah Quincy Jr.
Man passes away; generations are but shadows; there is nothing stable but truth.
The Rockefeller Principle
Anon
Never do anything you wouldn’t be caught dead doing.
Vertosick’s Rules for Neurosurgeons
Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
1. You ain’t never the same when the air hits your brain.
2. The only minor operation is one that someone else is doing.
3. If the patient isn’t dead, you can always make him worse if you try hard enough.
4. One look at the patient is better than a thousand phone calls from the nurse.
5. Operating on the wrong patient, or doing the wrong side of the body, makes for a very bad day.
