Rule of Accuracy:
When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.
Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

Acheson's Rule of the Bureaucracy:
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

First Maxim of Computers
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a computer

Gordon's First Law:
If a research project is not worth doing, it is not worth doing well.

Haldane's Law:
The Universe is not only queerer than we imagine, it is queerer than we CAN imagine.

Historian's Rule:
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Katz's Law:
Men and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.

Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy:
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.

Law of Nations:
In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.

Nixon's Rule:
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Occam's Razor:
Entities ought not to be multiplied except from necessity.
Reformulation: Cut the crap.

Parkinson's Law of Research:
Successful research attracts the bigger grant which makes further research impossible.

Parkinson's Law of 1000:
An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.

Ralph's Observation:
It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize that you are in a hurry.

Law of Research:
Enough research will tend to support your theory.

Law of Revelation:
The hidden flaw never remains hidden.

Law of Pacifism:
Hell hath no fury like a pacifist.

Suhor's Law:
A little ambiguity never hurt anyone.

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

Uhlmann's Razor:
When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to have recourse to any other.

Waffle's Law:
A professor's enthusiasm for teaching the introductory course varies inversely with the likelihood of his having to do it.

Whispered Rule:
People will believe anything if you whisper it.

Wood's Law:
The more unworkable the urban plan, the greater the probability of implementation.

Young's Law:
All great discoveries are made by mistake.
Corollary: The greater the funding, the longer it takes to make the mistake. /...next joke