Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 82)

The time it takes to rectify a situation is inversely proportional to the time it took to do the damage.

The customer is always ripe.

There is no traffic until you need to make a left turn.

If things were left to chance, they'd be better.

If you mess with something long enough, it'll break.

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

No matter how strong the breeze when you leave the dock, once you have reached the furthest point from port the wind will die.

When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to have recourse to any other.

You can't win; You can't break even; You can't quit.

The best parts of anything are always impossible to remove from the worst parts.

Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed.

A kind heart is of little value in chess.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man tired in mid afternoon.

Office machines that function perfectly during normal business hours will break down when you return at night to use them for personal business.

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

The “Consumer Report” on the item will come out a week after you’ve made your purchase.
Corollaries: 1. The one you bought will be rated “unacceptable.”. 2. The one you almost bought will be rated “best buy.”

Competence always contains the seed of incompetence.

A falling body always rolls to the most inaccessible spot.

Any decision is better than no decision.

Only someone who understands something absolutely can explain it so no one else can understand it.

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