Corollaries to:
Murphy's Law: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.
Lorenz's Law: of Mechanical Repair: Identical parts aren't.
Beach's Law: Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner.
Anthony's Law: of the Workshop: Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come.
Tussman's Law: If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
Lowery's Law: The solution to a problem changes the problem.
Peer's Law: There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute strength and ignorance.
William's Law: Machines should work. People should think.
IBM's Pollyanna Principle: The most ineffective workers will be systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - management.
The Dilbert Principle: The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Ehrlich's Law: It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize that you are in a hurry.
Ian's Law: No matter how many times you have tested something, it will fail to function correctly when a surveyor is present.