Amusing Laws

Do you hear the telephone ring when you are in the shower? Do you fret about things going wrong?

Authors like Parkinson, Peter, and Scott Adams have ferreted out some of the operating principles that govern the frustrating lives that we mortals live. Here is a small sampling of these amusing laws from my collection.

Parkinson's Laws by Prof. Cyril Northcote Parkinson.

Law One: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

Law Two: "Expenditures rise to meet income."

Law Three:"Expansion means complexity and complexity, decay."

The Peter Principle - formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter.

"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."

Dilbert Principle — Coined by Scott Adams, author of the Dilbert comic strip.

"The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: Management."

Murphy's Laws - Ascribed to Major Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

"If anything can go wrong, it will."
"If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop."
"Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse."
"Whatever has happened wrong, is bound to happen again ... maybe even worse."

Howe's Law

"Every man has a scheme that will not work."

Though the laws are satirical, I found them valid in many situations. Arising from my personal experience, I can perhaps add one more law of my own.

Subi's Law: "Clutter expands itself to fill up the space available"