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| Thread ID: 84232 | 2007-10-29 07:38:00 | Laws that are actually true | beeswax34 (63) | PC World Chat |
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| 606266 | 2007-10-29 07:38:00 | MURPHY'S TECHNOLOGY LAWS: Einstein's Rule: -- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Principle of Design Inertia -- Any change looks terrible at first. Cahn's Axiom -- When all else fails, read the instructions. Clarke's Third Law -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Belinda's Law -- The chance of a computer crash is directly proportional to the importance of the document that you are working on. Holten's Download Principle -- The likelihood of receiving an error message during download increases the closer you come to finishing. Putt's Law: -- Technology is dominated by two types of people -- those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 606267 | 2007-10-29 08:39:00 | Cahn's Axiom for video recorders -- When all blinks, the instructions will be the first and largest failure. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 606268 | 2007-10-29 08:48:00 | Murphy's Law: Anything that is good in life is illegal, immoral or fattening. :( |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 606269 | 2007-10-29 09:05:00 | It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth - Sherlock Holmes | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 606270 | 2007-10-29 09:11:00 | It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 606271 | 2007-10-29 09:28:00 | Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable - Oscar Wilde | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 606272 | 2007-10-29 09:33:00 | Gravity is a myth; the Earth sucks. | Deane F (8204) | ||
| 606273 | 2007-10-29 09:37:00 | Helicopters don't fly; they are so ugly the earth rejects them. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 606274 | 2007-10-29 09:49:00 | Thoughts aren't real, you just think they are - VoidMaster | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 606275 | 2007-10-29 16:39:00 | For myself I am very familiar with this one.... Cahn's Axiom -- When all else fails, read the instructions. |
Cicero (40) | ||
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