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| #4238 | | Maier's Law:
If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.
-- N.R. Maier, "American Psychologist", March 1960
Corollaries:
(1) The bigger the theory, the better.
(2) The experiment may be considered a success if no more than
50% of the observed measurements must be discarded to
obtain a correspondence with the theory.
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| #4239 | | Main's Law:
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
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| #4240 | | Maintainer's Motto:
If we can't fix it, it ain't broke.
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| #4241 | | Major premise:
Sixty men can do sixty times as much work as one man.
Minor premise:
A man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds.
Conclusion:
Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Secondary Conclusion:
Do you realize how many holes there would be if people
would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
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| #4242 | | Majority, n.:
That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law.
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| #4243 | | Male, n.:
A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex. The male of the
human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The genus
has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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| #4244 | | Malek's Law:
Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.
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| #4245 | | malpractice, n.:
The reason surgeons wear masks.
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| #4246 | | management, n.:
The art of getting other people to do all the work.
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| #4247 | | manic-depressive, adj.:
Easy glum, easy glow.
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