Some Interesting Laws of Life and Science MURPHY'S LAW: If anything can go wrong, it will!   O'TOOLE'S COMMENTARY ON MURPHYS LAW: Murphy was an optimist!   THE UNSPEAKABLE LAW: As soon as you mention something, if it's good, it goes away, if it's bad, it happens.   NONRECIPROCAL LAW OF EXPECTATIONS: Negative expectations yields negative results. Positive expectations yields negative results.   HOWE'S LAW: Every man has a scheme that will not work.   ZYMUGY'S LAW OF EVOLVING SYSTEM DYNAMICS: Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a larger can.   ETORRE'S OBSERVATION: The other line always move faster.   SKINNERS CONSTANT (FLANNAGAN'S FINAGLING FACTOR): The quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should have gotten.   LAW OF SELECTIVE GRAVITY: Any object will fall as to do the most damage.   JENNINGS COROLLARY: The chance of of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the price of the carpet.   GORDON'S FIRST LAW: If a research project is not worth doing, it is not worth doing well.    MAIER'S LAW: If the facts do not conform to theory, they must be disposed of.   HOARE'S LAW OF LARGER PROBLEMS: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.   BOREN'S FIRST LAW: When in doubt, mumble.   THE GOLDEN RULE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE: Whoever has the gold makes the rules.   BARTH'S DISTINCTION: There are two types of people: those that divide people into two types and those who do not.   SEGAL'S LAW: A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.   NINETY-NINETY RULE OF PROJECT SCHEDULES: The first half of a project takes 90 percent of the project time, and the last half takes another 90 percent of the project time.   FARBER's FOURTH LAW: Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.