These are not 'legal' laws or penal codes of any country but just casual statments which has become law in
it-self throughout the world. In modern times, Murphy's laws are well known which symbolize the error-prone
nature of people and processes. GigglePEDIA has large collection of these laws from hundreds of authors .
IBM Pollyanna Principle:
Machines should work. People should think.
Idea Formula:
One man's brain plus one other will produce about one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a creative meeting, and the ratio changes to one quarter as many.
The Ike Tautology:
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
Iles's Law:
There is an easier way to do it.
Corollaries:
1. When looking directly at the easier way, especially for long periods, you will not see it.
Imhoff's Law:
The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank -- the REALLY big chunks always rise to the top.
Index of Development:
The degree of a country's development is measured by the ratio of the price of an automobile to the cost of a haircut. The lower the ratio, the higher the degree of development.
Law of the Individual:
Nobody really cares or understands what anyone else is doing.
Laws of Institutional Food:
1. Everything is cold except what should be.
Law of Institutions:
The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.
Them what has -- gets. Wakefield's Refutation of the Iron La
Them what gets -- has.
Issawi's Law of Aggression:
At any given moment, a society contains a certain amount of accumulated and accruing aggressiveness. If more than 21 years elapse without this aggressiveness being directed outward, in a popular war against other countries, it turns inward, in social unrest, civil disturbances, and political disruption.
Issawi's Laws of Committo-Dynamics:
1. Comitas comitatum, omnia comitas.
Issawi's Law of the Conservation of Evil:
The total amount of evil in any system remains constant. Hence, any diminution in one direction -- for instance, a reduction in poverty or unemployment -- is accompanied by an increase in another, e.g., crime or air pollution.
Issawi's Law of Consumption Patterns:
Other people's patterns of expenditure and consumption are highly irrational and slightly immoral.
Issawi's Law of Cynics:
Cynics are right nine times out of ten; what undoes them is their belief that they are right ten times out of ten.
Issawi's Law of Dogmatism:
When we call others dogmatic, what we really object to is their holding dogmas that are different from our own.
Issawi's Law of Estimation of Error:
Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of 2 to 4 the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical.
Issawi's Law of Frustration:
One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs -- but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette.
Issawi's Laws of Progress:
The Course of Progress: Most things get steadily worse.
Issawi's Law of the Social Sciences:
By the time a social science theory is formulated in such a way that it can be tested, changing circumstances have already made it obsolete.
Issawi's Observation on the Consumption of Paper:
Each system has its own way of consuming vast amounts of paper: in socialist societies by filling large forms in quadruplicate, in capitalist societies by putting up huge posters and wrapping every article in four layers of cardboard.
First Postulate of Isomurphism:
Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other.
Italian Proverb:
She who is silent consents.
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These are not 'legal' laws or penal codes of any country but just casual statments which has become law in
it-self throughout the world. In modern times, Murphy's laws are well known which symbolize the error-prone
nature of people and processes. GigglePEDIA has large collection of these laws from hundreds of authors .
