THE GOLDEN RULE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES:
Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

GUMMIDGE'S LAW:
The amount of expertise varies in inverse proportion to the number of statements understood by the general public.

DUNNE'S LAW:
The territory behind rhetoric is too often mined with equivocation.

MALEK'S LAW:
Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.

ALLISON'S PRECEPT:
The best simple-minded test of expertise in a particular area is the ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

WEINBERG'S COROLLARY:
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

POTTER'S LAW:
The amount of flak received on any subject is inversely proportional to the subject's true value.

ROSS'S LAW:
Never characterize the importance of a statement in advance.

THE RULE OF THE WAY OUT:
Always leave room for an explanation if it doesn't work out.

CLARK'S LAW OF REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS:
Every revolutionary idea- in Science, Politics, Art or Whatever- evokes three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the three phrases:
1. "It is impossible- don't waste my time."
2. "It is possible, but it is not worth doing."
3. " I said it was a good idea all along."

CLARKE'S FIRST LAW:
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

CLARKE'S SECOND LAW:
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

RULE OF THE GREAT:
When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

CLARKE'S THIRD LAW:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

LAW OF SUPERIORITY:
The first example of superior principle is always inferior to the developed example of inferior principle.

BLAAUW'S LAW:
Established technology tends to persist in spite of new technology.

COHEN'S LAW:
What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts- not the facts themselves.

FITZ-GIBBON'S LAW:
Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved with the broth.

BARTH'S DISTINCTION:
There are two types of people: Those who divide people into two types and those who don't.

RUNAMOK'S LAW:
There are four types of people:
1. Those who sit quietly and do nothing.
2. Those who talk about sitting quietly and doing nothing.
3. Those who do things.
4. Those who talk about doing things.

LEVY'S EIGHTH LAW:
No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.

LEVY'S NINTH LAW:
Only God can make a random selection.

SEGAL'S LAW:
A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

MILLER'S LAW:
You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step in it.

KAMIN'S SIXTH LAW:
When attempting to predict and forecast macro-economic moves of economic legislation by a politician, never be misled by what he says; instead- watch what he does.

WEILER'S LAW:
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

LaCOMBE'S RULE OF PERCENTAGES:
The incidence of anything worthwhile is either 15-25 percent or 80-90 percent.
Dudenhoefer's Corollary:
An answer of 50 percent will suffice for the 40-60 range.

WEINBERG'S SECOND LAW:
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.