Be Practical

[1] Jone's Motto:
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

[2] Terman's Law of Innovation:
If you want a team to win the high jump, you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot each.

[3] O'brien's Variation:
If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

[4] Conway's Law:
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired.

[5] The Peter Principle:
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of Incompetence. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of incompetence.

[6] H.L.Mencken's Law:
Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach.

[7] Martin's Extension:
Those who can't teach, administer

[8] Belani's Extrapolation:
Those who cannot even administer, become consultants.

[9] Lieberman's Law:
Everbody lies; but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.

[10] Kovac's Conundrum:
When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.

[11] Van Herpen's Law:
The solving of the problem lies in finding the solvers.

[12] Murphy's Law of Government:
If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.

[13] Bell's Theorem:
When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.

[14] Ruby's Principle of Close Encounters:
The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with Someone you don't want to be seen with.

[15] Young's Law:
Great discoveries are made by mistake.

[16] Kin Hubbard:
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.