Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 10)

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A falling body always rolls to the most inaccessible spot.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Nothing is ever as simple as it first seems.

Murphy’s Laws

The difference between a politician and a snail is that a snail leaves its slime behind.

Murphy’s Laws Politicians

Traffic increases to fill the road space available.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

1. When they want it bad (in a rush), they get it bad.
2. There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

Golf Murphy’s Laws Problems Sports

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.

Computers Murphy’s Laws Things

If you don't need it and don't want it you can have tons of it.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws Sports

The amount of wind will vary inversely with the number and experience of the people you take on board.

Murphy’s Laws Sports

The more cordial the buyer’s secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.

Murphy’s Laws

The First Law of Economists: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist.
The Second Law of Economists: They're both wrong.

Murphy’s Laws

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which speciified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind; Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly.

(1923 – 1999) American satirical novelist, short story writer & playwright
Murphy’s Laws

When dangling, don't use participles.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

The splendor of an editor's speech and the splendor of his newspaper are inversely related to the distance between the city in which he makes his speech and the city in which he publishes his paper.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Places Reading/Writing Speech

Everybody lies; but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.

Characteristics Communication Honesty Lies Murphy’s Laws

Justice always prevails… three times out of seven.

Murphy’s Laws

It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple.

Murphy’s Laws

The wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

Murphy’s Laws

Don't abbrev.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

If it works, don't fix it.

Murphy’s Laws