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Farber's Fourth Law Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.
The Fifth Rule You have taken yourself too seriously.
Finagle's First Law If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
Finagle's Second Law No matter what result is anticipated, there will always be someone eager to (a) misinterpret it, (b) fake it, or (c) believe it happened to his own pet theory.
Finagle's Third Law In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.
Corollary 1: No one whom you ask for help will see it. ...
Finagle's Fourth Law Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.
Finagle's Rules Ever since the first scientific experiment, man has been plagued by the increasing antagonism of nature.
It seems only right that nature should be logical and neat, ...
First Law of Bicycling No matter which way you ride it's uphill and against the wind.
First Law of Bridge It's always the partner's fault.
First Law of Canoeing (Alfred Andrews' Canoeing Postulate) No matter which direction you start it's always against the wind coming back.

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