Handy LAWS to remember

by Gregor 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  Gregor

  Most are familiar with Murphy's Law: "If anything can go wrong, it will"

  Here are a few more...

  Benford's Law: "Passion in any argument is inversely proportional to the amount of real information advanced"

  Godwin's Law: "The longer an argument drags on, the likelier someone will stoop to a Hitler or Nazi analogy"

  The Heisenberg Principle: "Observation inevitably alters the thing being observed"

  Hegel's Paradox: "Man learns from history that man learns nothing from history"

  Have you any observations that you feel should be 'laws' in your name????
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  funkyderek

  Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

  Parkinson's Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion

  Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster

  Barnum's Law: You’ll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public

  Herblock's Law: If you like it, they will stop making it

  Poe's law: Without the use of a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to make a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing

  Cole's Law: Shredded cabbage in mayonnaise
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  oompa

  The Peter Principle

  don't laugh, it is real....oompa...you can google it

  The principle is based on the observation that in such an organization new employees typically start in the lower ranks, but when they prove to be competent in the task to which they are assigned, they get promoted to a higher rank. This process of climbing up the hierarchical ladder can go on indefinitely, until the employee reaches a position where he or she is no longer competent. At that moment the process typically stops, since the established rules of bureacracies make that it is very difficult to "demote" someone to a lower rank, even if that person would be much better fitted and more happy in that lower position. The net result is that most of the higher levels of a bureaucracy will be filled by incompetent people, who got there because they were quite good at doing a different (and usually, but not always, easier) task than the one they are expected to do.
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  RubaDub

  Oogler's Law: Beauty times Brains is a constant.

  Rub a Dub
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  Gregor

  Oompa, The Peter Principle is a classic. It was the title of a book, I think, that explained the rationale. I haven't taken the time to google the name of the author but he's a smart guy.
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  MegaDude

  The Sukhomlinov Law:
  The most brilliantly dressed army will usually lose.