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Texplorer
Trad climber
Sacramento
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Aug 15, 2012 - 02:31pm PT
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If you trust your life to one thing, you're gonna die.
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pc
climber
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Aug 15, 2012 - 02:41pm PT
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“Nothing happens until something moves.”
― Albert Einstein
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 15, 2012 - 02:45pm PT
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I'm not sure whose law this is, but I've heard it for at least 45 years:
Measurements will always be given in the most inconvenient units, e.g. furlongs per fortnight.
John
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PRRose
climber
Boulder
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Aug 15, 2012 - 02:46pm PT
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Don't tell me what it was designed to do; tell me what it does.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
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Aug 15, 2012 - 02:47pm PT
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Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down.
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plasticluvr
Gym climber
ft lauderdale fl
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Aug 15, 2012 - 02:48pm PT
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Beware the perverseness of heavy gas dispersion
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 15, 2012 - 03:04pm PT
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I like to think the Alpine Law applies to driving, too!
John
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Aug 15, 2012 - 03:14pm PT
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Find out first what's already been done - ie, "Don't reinvent the wheel."
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Ropeboy
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 15, 2012 - 03:16pm PT
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The engineer will produce a working product. The instructions will be written by a junior assistant and transcribed by a front office clerk. No one will test the instructions before shipping.
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If it works in the mud and the rain, it will also work when it is clean and dry, but maybe not the other way around.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Aug 15, 2012 - 03:29pm PT
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Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Aug 15, 2012 - 03:30pm PT
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The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Aug 15, 2012 - 03:36pm PT
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Everything will fail......
Obey Gravity..... It's the law
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Aug 15, 2012 - 03:47pm PT
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Measure twice, cut once.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 15, 2012 - 04:16pm PT
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Thanks to Ed for these beauties!
GRUNDMAN'S LAW - Under the most carefully controlled conditions, the system will perform as it damn well pleases.
EVAN'S LAW -- Every man has a scheme that will not work.
WORAM'S LAW -- Any sufficiently advanced technology Is Indistinguishable from magic.
NORDAHL'S LAW -- Everything goes wrong at once.
EMERMAN'S LAW -- In a crisis, people tend to choose the worst possible course of action.
TARSIA'S LAW -- The obvious answer Is always overlooked.
HARRISON'S LAW -- There Is always an easy answer to every problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
MEADOW'S LAW -- It won't work.
CAPPS' LAW -- If It can find a way to wear out faster, It will.
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tarek
climber
berkeley
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Aug 15, 2012 - 04:23pm PT
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don't look for/create a problem just because you have a solution for it.
Edit: A solution begs for a problem.
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BBWolf
climber
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Aug 15, 2012 - 04:28pm PT
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Things are more like they are now then they've ever been before.
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Aug 15, 2012 - 04:32pm PT
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A brittle solid like rock can easily be 1,000 times stronger in compression than in tension: therefore, preference should be given to a secure nut or cam placement over a slender, tied-off protrusion or a threaded solution pocket.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Aug 15, 2012 - 04:33pm PT
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LOCKER'S LAW: YER GONNA DIE!!!
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Aug 15, 2012 - 04:51pm PT
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
 Douglas Adams -
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pell
Trad climber
Sunnyvale
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Aug 15, 2012 - 05:11pm PT
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If it could be fixed with duct tape and chewing gum it should be fixed with duct tape and chewing gum.
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