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• The accessibility, during recovery of small parts that fall from the workbench, varies directly with the size of the part -- and inversely with its importance to the completion of work underway.
  -- The First Spare Parts Principle...
• Parkinson's First Law Work expands to fill the time available for its completio
  he thing to be done swells in perceived importance and complexity in a direct ratio with the time to be spent in its completion....
• Frothingham's Fourth Law: Urgency varies inversely with importance.
• The life expectancy of a house plant varies inversely with its price and directly with its ugliness.
  -- Britt's Green Thumb Postulate...
• Britt's Green Thumb Postulate: The life expectancy of a house plant varies inversely with its price and directly with its ugliness.
• The Pineapple Principle: The best parts of anything are always impossible to remove from the worst parts.
• The probability of an event's occurring varies directly with the perversity of the inanimate object involved and inversely with product of its desirability and the effort expended to produce it.
  -- Walter Mule...
• The amount of work done varies inversely with the amount of time spent in the office.
  -- Cropp's Law...
• Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.