The only time your ball listens to you when you’re yelling at it is when you’re giving it misinformation.

When you’re trying to prove something, it helps to know it’s true.

When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

Any putt is straight if you hit it hard enough.

In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.

The bigger they are, the harder hey hit.

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

If there is no legitimate objection to progress, an illegitimate one will be found.

Everything falls apart on the same day.

It makes sense when you don’t think about it.

You will save yourself a lot of needless worry if you don’t burn your bridges until you come to them.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they’re blind.

You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.

事前に正しく、パンのどちらの面にバターを塗れば良いか決めることはできない

自然のつむじ曲がりの法則

Overdoing things is harmful in all cases, even when it comes to efficiency.

The basic building blocksof matter do not occur in nature.

In any bureaucracy, paperwork increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you are doing. Stability is achieved when you spend all of your time reorting on the nothing you are doing.

The universe includes no contrary laws.

People specialize in the area of greatest weakness.

In matters of dispute, the bank’s balance is always smaller than yours.

Delay is the deadliest from denial.

When you are over the hill, you pich up speed.

丘の上にいるのならばスピードが上がる

ベーカーの附則

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The inefficiency and stupidity of the staff corresponds to the inefficiency and stupidity of the management.

You cannot cross a river in two strides.

Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.

People to whom you are attracred invariably think you remind them of someone else.

The better the customer service, the sooner you get to speak with someone who can’t help you.

The upgrade will break down as soon as the old version is deleted.

Inanimate objects can temporarily cease to exit.

Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Almost everything is more popular than it used to be.