Inter Disciplinary Laws 3

[photo: Garden at Giverny - Monet]

Baxter's First Law:
Government intervention in the free market always leads to a lower national standard of living.

Baxter's Second Law:
The adoption of fractional gold reserves in a currency system always leads to depreciation, devaluation, demonetization and, ultimately, to complete destruction of that currency.

Baxter's Third Law:
In a free market good money always drives bad money out of circulation.

Beardsley's Warning to Lawyers:
Beware of and eschew pompous prolixity.

Beauregard's Law:
When you're up to your nose, keep your mouth shut.

Becker's Law:
It is much harder to find a job than to keep one.

Beers Law of Reciprocating Systems Dynamics:
Some mistakes are too fun to make only once.

Beifeld's Principle:
The probability of a young man meeting a desirable and receptive young female increases by pyramidal progression when he is already in the company of:
(1) a date, (2) his wife, and (3) a better looking and richer male friend.

Belle's Constant:
The ratio of time involved in work to time available for work is usually about 0.6.

Benchley's Distinction:
There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.

Benchley's Law:
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

Berkeley's Laws:

1. The world is more complicated than most of our theories make it out to be.
2. Ignorance is no excuse.
3. Never decide to buy something while listening to the salesman.
4. Information which is true meets a great many different tests very well.
5. Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have a single answer.
6. An answer may be wrong, right, both, or neither. Most answers are partly right and partly wrong.
7. A chain of reasoning is no stronger than its weakest link.
8. A statement may be true independently of illogical reasoning.
9. Most general statements are false, including this one.
10. An exception TESTS a rule; it NEVER PROVES it.
11. The moment you have worked out an answer, start checking it -- it probably isn't right.
12. If there is an opportunity to make a mistake, sooner or later the mistake will be made.
13. Being sure mistakes will occur is a good frame of mind for catching them.
14. Check the answer you have worked out once more -- before you tell it to anybody.
15. Estimating a figure may be enough to catch an error.
16. Figures calculated in a rush are very hot; they should be allowed to cool off a little before being used; thus we will have a reasonable time to think about the figures and catch mistakes.
17. A great many problems do not have accurate answers, but do have approximate answers, from which sensible decisions can be made.

Berra's Law:
You can observe a lot just by watching.

Berson's Corollary of Inverse Distances:
The farther away from the entrance that you have to park, the closer the space vacated by the car that pulls away as you walk up to the door.