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The House Of Murphy
Murphy's home
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Taxi Principle:
Find out the cost before you get in.

Terman's Law:
There is no direct relationship between the quality of an educational program and its cost.

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

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics:
If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

Thinking Man's Tautology:
If you think you're wrong, you're wrong.
Corollary: If you think you're wrong, you're right.

Thoreau's Law:
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.

Thoreau's Rule:
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Thurber's Conclusion:
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Thwartz's Theorem of Low Profile:
Negative expectation thwarts realization, and self-congratulation guarantees disaster (Or, simply put: If you think of it, it won't happen quite that way).

Tipper's Law:
Those who expect the biggest tips provide the worst service.

Titanic Coincidence:
Most accidents in well-designed systems involve two or more events of low probability occurring in the worst possible combination.

Torquemada's Law:
When you are sure you're right, you have a moral duty to impose your will upon anyone who disagrees with you.

Transcription Square Law:
The number of errors made is equal to the sum of the squares employed.

Travel Axiom:
He travels fastest who travels aloneŠ but he hasn't anything to do when he gets there.

First Law of Travel:
No matter how many rooms there are in the motel, the fellow who starts up his car at five o'clock in the morning is always parked under your window.

Trischmann's Paradox (Axiom of the Pipe):
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Law of Triviality:
The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Troutman's Laws of Computer Programming (and see Peck's Programming Postulates):
  1. Any running program is obsolete.
  2. Any planned program costs more and takes longer.
  3. Any useful program will have to be changed.
  4. Any useless program will have to be documented.
  5. The size of a program expands to fill all available memory.
  6. The value of a program is inversely proportional to the weight of its output.
  7. The complexity of a program grows until it exceeds the capability of its maintainers.
  8. Any system that relies on computer reliability is unreliable.
  9. Any system that relies on human reliability is unreliable.
  10. Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers cannot write in English.
  11. Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.

Truman's Law:
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

Tuccille's First Law of Reality:
Industry always moves in to fill an economic vacuum.

Turnauckas's Observation:
To err is human; to really foul things up takes a computer.

Turner's Law:
Nearly all prophecies made in public are wrong.

Twain's Rule:
Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we".

Tylk's Law:
Assumption is the mother of all foul-ups.
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