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Kelly's Law

Junk will accumulate in the space available.

Coined my Mike Kelly

Oh man, i bought the new house with more storage space but you'd never, Kelly's Law kicked in, I have no space and junk everywhere.

by Tank June 27, 2009

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Kelly's Law

Kelly's Law is the ability for solids to froth into liquids.

That scoop of ice cream is growing twice the size, it must be Kelly's Law that allows it to do that!

by Harvard's Dictionary December 11, 2020

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kelli's law

If the IQ in the room, combined, is less than your own - leave.

I invoked Kelli's Law at the last departmental meeting.

by Blaze86 March 4, 2014

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Kelly's Law

Not all feminists are man-haters, but all man-haters are feminists.

Feminist 1: We should strive for sex equality
Feminist 2: I fucking hate men. Btw I'm a feminist ;)))
Yup, there's Kelly's Law at work

by ChopperWopperCopter July 12, 2017


Kelly's Law of Committees

None of us are as dumb as all of us.
A counter to the older, pro-teamwork adage "None of us are as smart as all of us."
Speaks to the risk of lower-level workers' input being useless if upper management gives its own opinion first, due to the tendency of workers to fall in line once the position of the leader (who could fire them for dissent) is known.
The wording above was written on a wall at NASA's Houston complex after the Challenger disaster, as reported by astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. Although the concept has long been known of, once it took the form of an aphorism, it acquired a viral quality.

Niels Bohr and son Aage asked low-level engineer Richard Feynman their questions before asking higher-ups like Oppenheimer, partly to avoid taking up important administrators' time, but also to avoid Kelly's law of committees. Asking the higher-ups first, with lower-level workers present, would have a chilling effect on the latter's offering their own ideas and concerns.

by WhatwasIsaying December 24, 2024