Peter’s Principle: In every hierarchy, each employee tends to rise to the level of his incompetence.

Pudder’s Law: Anything that begins well will end badly. (Note: The converse of Pudder’s law is not true.)

Putt’s Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage. Those who manage what they do not understand.

Putts-Brooks Law: Adding manpower to a late technology project only makes it later.

Quigley’s Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it.

Ralph’s Observation: It is a mistake to let any mechanical object realise that you are in a hurry. Corollary: On the way to the corner, any dropped tool will first strike your toes.

Reisner’s Rule of Conceptual Inertia: If you think big enough, you’ll never have to do it.