Lorenz's Law of Mechanical Repair:
After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.
When your hands don't get covered with grease and your nose begins to itch, you scratch the itch and then forget about it. How many itches that you scratched in your life do you now remember?
Anthony's Law of the Workshop:
Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
If the tool drops right next to your feet, you pick it up and go on with your job. Do you commit that to memory?
Kovac's Conundrum:
When you dial a wrong number,you never get an engaged one.
If you DO get an engaged tone, you wouldn't notice if it was a wrong number.
Cannon's Karmic Law:
If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
You will remember your previous day's lie because it turned real today. Would you remember it if it didn't?
O'brien's Variation Law:
If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.
You will go on to buy your ticket if the queue you just moved into moves faster. Will you notice the queue that moves slower than yours?
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Why am I doing this - asking if you remember? I want to prove that people forget the good that happen to them much more easily than the bad that happens to them. I read an NYTimes survey that found that on an average, a person tells 3 people about a product he liked, but 11 people about a product he didn't like. See? This is why right is harder and wrong is easier much more often than not - in fact, 11/3 times more often.
After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.
When your hands don't get covered with grease and your nose begins to itch, you scratch the itch and then forget about it. How many itches that you scratched in your life do you now remember?
Anthony's Law of the Workshop:
Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
If the tool drops right next to your feet, you pick it up and go on with your job. Do you commit that to memory?
Kovac's Conundrum:
When you dial a wrong number,you never get an engaged one.
If you DO get an engaged tone, you wouldn't notice if it was a wrong number.
Cannon's Karmic Law:
If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
You will remember your previous day's lie because it turned real today. Would you remember it if it didn't?
O'brien's Variation Law:
If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.
You will go on to buy your ticket if the queue you just moved into moves faster. Will you notice the queue that moves slower than yours?
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Why am I doing this - asking if you remember? I want to prove that people forget the good that happen to them much more easily than the bad that happens to them. I read an NYTimes survey that found that on an average, a person tells 3 people about a product he liked, but 11 people about a product he didn't like. See? This is why right is harder and wrong is easier much more often than not - in fact, 11/3 times more often.
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