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.

kelli's law by Blaze86 March 14, 2014

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.

Kelly's Law by Tank June 26, 2009

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!

Kelly's Law by Harvard's Dictionary December 11, 2020

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

Kelly's Law by ChopperWopperCopter July 11, 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.

Kelly's Law of Committees by WhatwasIsaying December 24, 2024