Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 3)

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

When dangling, don't use participles.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

The larger the project or job, the less time there is to do it.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Professional soldiers are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs.

Military Murphy’s Laws

In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totaled correctly after 4:40 p.m. on Friday.

Murphy’s Laws

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty.

Murphy’s Laws

The probability of meeting someone you know increases dramatically when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

Murphy’s Laws People Situations

The guy you beat out of a prime parking space is the one you have to see for a job interview.

Murphy’s Laws

Men and nations will act rationally towards each other only after all other possibilities have been exhausted.

Characteristics Intelligence Murphy’s Laws People

Badness comes in waves.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

Under any given set of environmental conditions an experimental animal behaves as it damn well pleases.

Animals Murphy’s Laws

Go where the money is.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.

Corollary: Once a misfit leaves, another will be recruited.

Murphy’s Laws People

Performance is directly affected by the perversity of inanimate objects.

Murphy’s Laws Success Things

When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, an unethical lawyer will immediately appear.

Lawyers Murphy’s Laws

Once the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.

Military Murphy’s Laws

If it’s clean, it isn’t laundry.

Murphy’s Laws

1. If it should exist, it doesn't.
2. If it does exist, it's out of date.
3. Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.

Murphy’s Laws

Make it sufficiently difficult for people to do something, and most people will stop doing it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems