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Johnson's law:
Systems resemble the organizations that create them.
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Jones' First Law:
Anyone who makes 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 their original contribution.
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Jones' Motto:
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
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Jones' Second Law:
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone
to blame it on.
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Juall's Law on Nice Guys:
Nice guys don't always finish last; sometimes they don't finish.
Sometimes they don't even get a chance to start!
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Justice, n.:
A decision in your favor.
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Kafka's Law:
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
-- Franz Kafka, "RS's 1974 Expectation of Days"
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Karlson's Theorem of Snack Food Packages:
For all P, where P is a package of snack food, P is a SINGLE-SERVING
package of snack food.
Gibson the Cat's Corrolary:
For all L, where L is a package of lunch meat, L is Gibson's package
of lunch meat.
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Katz' Law:
Men and nations will act rationally when
all other possibilities have been exhausted.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have
exhausted all other alternatives.
-- Abba Eban
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Kaufman's First Law of Party Physics:
Population density is inversely proportional
to the square of the distance from the keg.
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