Linux Definitions

Shaw's Principle:
        Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will
        want to use it.

Shedenhelm's Law:
        All trails have more uphill sections than they have downhill sections.

Shick's Law:
        There is no problem a good miracle can't solve.

Silverman's Law:
        If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.

Simon's Law:
        Everything put together falls apart sooner or later.

Skinner's Constant (or Flannagan's Finagling Factor):
        That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to,
        or subtracted from the answer you got, gives you the answer you
        should have gotten.

Slick's Three Laws of the Universe:
        (1)  Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.
        (2)  A quarter-ounce of chocolate = four pounds of fat.
        (3)  There are two types of dirt:  the dark kind, which is
            attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is
            attracted to dark objects.

Slous' Contention:
        If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it.

Slurm, n.:
        The slime that accumulates on the underside of a soap bar when
        it sits in the dish too long.
                -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"

Snacktrek, n.:
        The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly
        returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have
        materialized.
                -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"