If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a commettee ? that will do them in.

Free time that unexpectedly becomes available will be wasted.

The more proficient one is at procrastination, the less proficient one need be at all else.

Asking dumb question is easier than correcting dumb mistakes.

下らない質問をすることはつまらないミスを訂正するより簡単だ

ローネガイヤーの観察

Work expands to the time available for its completion; the thing to be done swells in perceived importance and complexity in amdirect ratio with the time to be spent in its completion.

ポドノスの法則
One is tolerant only of that of which does not concern him.
人間は自分に関わりのないことにのみは寛容でいることができる

Don’t worry about your enemies. It’s your allies who will do you in.

If two people agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing thinking.

ジョーの法則
The inside contact that you have developed at great expence is the first person to be let go in any reorganization.
多大の労力を払って築いた内部のコネクションは組織改訂で去って行く最初の人間となる

A fool and his money are soon elected.

ウォルトンの政治法則

Any bureaucracy recognized to enhance efficiency is immediately indistiguishable from its predecessor.

ソーパーの法則

It is the dead wood that holds up the tree.

Just because it is still snanding, doesn’t mean it’s not dead.

樹木を支えているのは死んだ木である

<推論>
まだ立っているからといって、死んでいないとは限らない

ヤングの官僚主義の法則

Beware the man of one book.

If you’re running short time, it suddenly becomes a long line.

短辺方向を走っていると、急に長辺になる

ヴァイルの前衛の第一法則

Hell is others.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much you please.

自分に対する事実を集め、自分の良いように歪曲せよ

Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.

何が起ころうとも予定されていたことであるかのように見せかけろ

演技の第一規則

The fury engendered by the misspelling of a name in a blog is in direct ratio to the obscurity of the mentionee.

Enter a contest and be on the sponsor’s sucker list for life.

A mediocre player will sink to the level of the opposition.

Never do card tricks for the group you play poke with.

When it gets to be your turn, they change the rules.

いよいよ自分の番だという時にやつらはルールを変える

シグスタッドの法則

What will get you promoted on one level will get you killed on another.

If you want to get along, go along.

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.

常に良い投球は良い打撃を打ち負かす。逆もまた同様

ビールの規則

Sit at the feet of the master long enough and they start to smell.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then you just don’t understand the problem.

The truth of any proposition has nothing to do with its credibility and vice versa.

At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.