LEIBER'S LAW

"In good times, magicians are laughed at. They're a luxury of the spoiled wealthy few. But in bad times, people will sell their souls for magic cures and buy perpetual motion machines to power their war rockets."- Fritz Leiber, "Poor Superman," quoted by Paul McAuley​

MARIBEL'S MAXIM

"If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got."
- Maribel Martinez, February 13th, 2015.

DORNBUSCH'S LAW OF ECONOMICS

"In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could." - Economist Rudiger Dornbusch

THE FIRST LAW OF WEATHER TWITTER

"The quantity of nonsense increases with wind speed." - Overheard at a weather conference in 2018

GILL's 19TH LAW

Pipes at home leak and burst and start flooding five minutes after everyone has left for the day to go to work.  Pipes at the workplace burst and leak and start flooding five minutes after everyone has left for the day to go home.

BELL'S LAW

If truth were the order of the day, it would be our last day. 
- Radio talk show host Art Bell, 3/11/1999