...to keep one's sense of humor is to shrug off misfortunes, and to lose one's sense of humor is to be wounded by them.
- Paul Graham
Bradley's Bromide:
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
Ginsberg's Theorem:
1. You can't win.
2. You can't break even.
3. You can't even quit the game.
Jone's Law:
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering:
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
O'Toole's Commentary on Murphy's Law:
Murphy was an optimist.
Pardo's First Postulate:
Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
Arnold's Addendum:
Everything else causes cancer in rats.
Seleznick's Theory of Holistic Medicine:
Ice cream cures all ills.
- Laws and Principles
