Here's a couple more:
1) Any part of a race car that breaks should be made stronger. Every part
that doesn't break should be made lighter.
(The Lotus Principle)
2) The first concept of superior principle is always defeated by the
perfected example of established practice.
(The Stirling Moss/Denis Jenkinson/Alf Francis/Lawrence Pomeroy
Conundrum)
(The real conundrum being that one of the above said this, but I can't
remember which one it was)
Jim Hill
Rogue Thicko
Madison WI
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On Thursday, March 23, 2000 4:50 PM, Gerald J. Brazil
[SMTP:gerrybraz@voyager.net] wrote:
> This came through on one of my joke services and I though it appropriate.
>
> * * Axioms-of-the-day * *
>
> After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will
> begin to itch.
> -- Lorenz's Law of Mechanical Repair
>
> Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible
> corner.
> -- Anthony's Law of the Workshop
>
> If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
> -- Lowery's Law
>
> There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot
> be solved by brute strength and ignorance.
> -- William's Law
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