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Linda Eskin's Laws

I saw a web site recently where people were invited to submit their own "laws" - things like Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will."). What a great idea! There were a bunch of good ones posted already, too. So I jotted down a few of my own, which had been rattling around in my skull for years now.

Alas! Submittals were only accepted from a closed group of self-described "complex and sophisticated minds", "doers, thinkers, and writers". Hmmph.

I don't know where that leaves the rest of us common slobs (non-thinkers?), but for what it's worth, here are my laws:

Eskin's Law of Effiency

If necessity is the mother of invention,
Then laziness is the mother of efficiency.

Eskin's Law of Poor Product Design

To identify a poorly designed product,
Listen for the designer,
muttering that the users are idiots.

Eskin's Law of Inept Public Land Management

When the public is kept from experiencing public lands,
In the interest of protection and preservation,
Interest in protection and preservation will decline.