- Felson's Law: To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism;
to steal from many is research... - Femo's Law of Automotive Engine Repairing: If you drop
something,
it will never reach the ground... - Ferguson's Precept:
A crisis is when you can't say "let's forget the whole... - Fifth Law of Applied Terror: If you are given an open-book exam,
you will forget your book. Corollary: If you are... - Fifth Law of Unreliability: To err is human,
but to really foul things up requires a computer... - The Fifth Rule:
You have taken yourself too seriously... - Fifth Rule of Politics: When a politician gets an idea,
he usually gets it wrong... - Finagle's First Law: If an experiment works,
something has gone wrong... - Finagle's Third Law: In any collection of data, the figure most
obviously correct,
beyond all need of checking, is the mistake... - Finagle's Fourth Law: Once a job is fouled up,
anything done to improve it only makes it worse...
