Untitled
The House Of Murphy
Murphy's home
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Oaks's Unruly Laws for Lawmakers:
  1. Law expands in proportion to the resources available for its enforcement.
  2. Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed.
  3. Social legislation cannot repeal physical laws.

O'Brien's First Law of Politics:
The more campaigning, the better.

O'Brien's Principle (The $357.73 Theorem):
Auditors always reject any expense account with a bottom line divisible by five or ten.

O'Brien's Rule:
Nothing is ever done for the right reason.

The Obvious Law:
Actually, it only SEEMS as though you mustn't be deceived by appearances.

Occam's Electric Razor:
The most difficult light bulb to replace burns out first and most frequently.

Occam's Razor:
Entities ought not to be multiplied except from necessity.
Reformulations:
  1. The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be correct.
  2. Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.
  3. Cut the crap.

Oesner's Law (Oeser's Law?):
There is a tendency for the person in the most powerful position in an organization to spend all his time serving on committees and signing letters.

Old and Kahn's Law:
The efficiency of a committee meeting is inversely proportional to the number of participants and the time spent on deliberations.

Old Children's Law:
If it tastes good, you can't have it. If it tastes awful, you'd better clean your plate.

Olum's Observation (and see Martha's Maxim and Farrow's Finding):
If God had intended us to go around naked, He would have made us that way.

Oppenheimer's Observation:
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

Optimum Optimorum Principle:
There comes a time when one must stop suggesting and evaluating new solutions, and get on with the job of analyzing and finally implementing one pretty good solution.

Ordering Principle:
Those supplies necessary for yesterday's experiment must be ordered no later than tomorrow noon.

Orion's Law:
Everything breaks down.

Orwell's Law of Bridge:
All bridge hands are equally likely, but some are more equally likely than others.

Osborn's Law:
Variables won't; constants aren't.

Otten's Law of Testimony:
When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

Otten's Law of Typesetting:
Typesetters always correct intentional errors, but fail to correct unintentional ones.

Ozian Option:
I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma.
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