Inter Disciplinary Laws 4

The Billings Phenomenon:
The conclusions of most good operations research studies are obvious.

Billings's Law:
Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Blaauw's Law:
Established technology tends to persist in spite of new technology.

Blanchard's Newspaper Obituary Law:
If you want your name spelled wrong, die.

Bok's Law:
If you think education is expensive -- try ignorance.

Boling's Postulate:
If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.

Bolton's Law of Ascending Budgets:
Under current practices, both expenditures and revenues rise to meet each other, no matter which one may be in excess.

Bombeck's Rule of Medicine:
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Bonafede's Revelation:
The conventional wisdom is that power is an aphrodisiac. In truth, it's exhausting.

Boob's Law:
You always find something the last place you look.

Booker's Law:
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Boozer's Revision:
A bird in the hand is dead.

Boren's Laws of the Bureaucracy:

1. When in doubt, mumble.
2. When in trouble, delegate.
3. When in charge, ponder.


Borkowski's Law:
You can't guard against the arbitrary.

Borstelmann's Rule:
If everything seems to be coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane.

Boston's Irreversible Law of Clutter:
In any household, junk accumulates to fill the space available for its storage.

Boultbee's Criterion:
If the converse of a statement is absurd, the original statement is an insult to the intelligence and should never have been said.

Branch's First Law of Crisis:
The spirit of public service will rise, and the bureaucracy will multiply itself much faster, in time of grave national concern.

First Law of Bridge:
It's always the partner's fault.

Brontosaurus Principle:
Organizations can grow faster than their brains can manage them in relation to their environment and to their own physiology; when this occurs, they are an endangered species.

Brooks's Law:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Brooke's Law:
Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.

Brownian Motion Rule of Bureacracies:
It is impossible to distinguish, from a distance, whether the bureaucrats associated with your project are simply sitting on their hands, or frantically trying to cover their asses.

Heisenberg's Addendum to Brownian Bureaucracy: If you observe a bureaucrat closely enough to make the distinction above, he will react to your observation by covering his ass.

[T.B.C.]