Arnold’s Laws of Documentation
Arnold
1. If it should exist it doesn’t.
2. If it does exist it’s out of date.
3. Only useless documentation transcends the first two laws.
Austen’s Second Law
Jane Austen
If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are sure to get out of it.
Baker’s Law of Inanimation
Russell Baker
Inanimate objects are scientifically classified into three major categories - those that don’t work those that break down and those that get lost.
Beer’s Law
Stafford Beer
Absolutum obsoletum - if it works, it’s out of date
Cheops’s Law
Anon
No project was ever completed on time and within budget.
Conran’s Law of Cooking
Shirley Conran
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
Conran’s Law of Housework
Shirley Conran
It [housework] expands to fill the time available plus half an hour: so obviously it is never finished.
Drazen’s Law of Restitution
Louis D. Rubin
The time it takes to rectify a situation is inversely proportional to the time it took to do the damage.
Emerson’s Second Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man write a better book preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor tho’ he build his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Galbraith’s First Law
John Kenneth Galbraith
The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
