Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 5)

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

The successful pundit is provided more opportunities to say things than he has things worth saying.

No one is as ugly as their passport photo.

1. Any great truth can – and eventually will – be expressed as a cliche.

2. Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

Decisions are justified by the benefits to the organization, but they are made by considering the benefits to the decision-makers.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way.

Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other.

The cream rises to the top. So does the scum.

The only time to be positive is when you are positive you are wrong.

When you can’t discover the cause of a breakdown, all of the free advice you get will be for things you’ve already checked.

Hockey is a game played by six good players and a home team.

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages will be known far and wide as a smart-ass.

Anything that can be changed will be changed up until there is no time left to change anything.

Don’t draw fire, it irritates the people around you.

If the shoe fits, it’s ugly.

No matter how often the lie is shown to be false, there will still remain a percentage of people who believe it true.

The bigger the discovery, the more likely it was made while testing for something else.

The grass is brown on both sides of the fence.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action.