Freebsd Murphys Law

If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two
data points.

Any technical problem can be overcome given enough
time and money.

You are never given enough time or money.

Unless the results are known in advance, funding
agencies will reject the proposal.

It is better to solve a problem with a crude
approximation and know the truth, than to demand an
exact solution and not know the truth at all.

An easily-understood, workable falsehood is more useful
than a complex, incompreshensible truth.

Anyone who make a significant contribution to any field
of endeavor and stays in that field long enough,
becomes an obstruction to its progress -- in direct
proportion to the importance of his original contribution.

If a scientist uncovers a publishable fact, it will
become central to his theory.

His theory, in turn, will become central to all
scientific truth.

There is no such thing as a straight line.

In any series of calculations, errors tend to occur
at the opposite end to the end at which you begin
checking for errors.