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#4238Maier's Law:
If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.
-- N.R. Maier, "American Psychologist", March 1960

Corollaries:
(1) The bigger the theory, the better.
(2) The experiment may be considered a success if no more than
50% of the observed measurements must be discarded to
obtain a correspondence with the theory.
#4239Main's Law:
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
#4240Maintainer's Motto:
If we can't fix it, it ain't broke.
#4241Major premise:
Sixty men can do sixty times as much work as one man.
Minor premise:
A man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds.
Conclusion:
Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Secondary Conclusion:
Do you realize how many holes there would be if people
would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
#4242Majority, n.:
That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law.
#4243Male, n.:
A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex. The male of the
human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The genus
has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
#4244Malek's Law:
Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.
#4245malpractice, n.:
The reason surgeons wear masks.
#4246management, n.:
The art of getting other people to do all the work.
#4247manic-depressive, adj.:
Easy glum, easy glow.
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