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Kennedy's Law: Excessive official restraints on information are inevitably self-defeating and productive of headaches for the officials concerned. - Law of Life and Nature Kent's Law: The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down. - Law of Life and Nature Kerr-Martin First Law: In dealing with their "own" problems, faculty members are the most extreme conservatives. - Law of Life and Nature Kerr-Martin Second Law: In dealing with "other" people's problems, they are the world's most extreme liberals. - Law of Life and Nature Kettering's First Law: If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. - Law of Life and Nature Kettering's Second Law: If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. - Law of Life and Nature Key to Status: S = D/K. S is the status of a person in an organization, D is the number of doors he must open to perform his job, and K is the number of keys he carries. A higher number denotes higher status. Thus the janitor needs to open 20 doors and has 20 keys (S = 1), a secretary has to open two doors with one (S = 2), but the president never has to carry any keys since there is always someone around to open doors for him (with K=0 and a high D, his S reaches infinity). - Law of Life and Nature Keyes Rule of Misquotation Axiom 1: Any quotation that can be altered will be. - Law of Life and Nature Keyes Rule of Misquotation Axiom 2: Famous quotes need famous mouths. - Law of Life and Nature Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 1A: Vivid words hook misquotes in the mind. - Law of Life and Nature Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 1B: Numbers are hard to keep straight. - Law of Life and Nature Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 1C: Small changes can have a big impact (or: what a difference an a makes). - Law of Life and Nature Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 1D: If noted figures don't say what needs to be said, we'll say it for them. - Law of Life and Nature Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 1E: Journalists are a less than dependable source of accurate quotes. - Law of Life and Nature Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 1F: Famous dead people make excellent commentators on current events. - Law of Life and Nature Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 2A: Well-known messengers get credit for clever comments they report from less celebrated mouths. - Law of Life and Nature Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 2B: Particularly quotable figures receive more than their share of quotable quotes. - Law of Life and Nature Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 2C: Comments made about someone might as well have been said by that person. - Law of Life and Nature Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 2D: Who you think said something may depend on where you live. - Law of Life and Nature Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 2E: Vintage quotes are considered to be in the public domain. - Law of Life and Nature Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 2F: In a pinch, any orphan quote can be called a Chinese proverb. - Law of Life and Nature Kharasch's Institutional Imperative, Corollary: The expert judgment of an institution, when the matter involved concerns continuation of the institution's operations, is totally predictable, and hence the finding is totally worthless. - Law of Life and Nature Kharasch's Institutional Imperative: Every action or decision of an institution must be intended to keep the institution machinery working. - Law of Life and Nature Kirkland's Law: The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance. - Law of Life and Nature Kitman's Law: On the TV screen, pure drivel tends to drive off ordinary drivel. - Law of Life and Nature Displaying page 11 of 21 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11] 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
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