Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 12)

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As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.

Money Murphy’s Laws

In a bureaucratic hierarchy, the higher up the organization the less people appreciate Murphy's Law.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Computers Murphy’s Laws Things

1. To get action out of management, it is necessary to create the illusion of a crisis in the hope it will be acted upon. 2. Management will select actions or events and convert them to crises. It will then over-react. 3. Management is incapable of recognizing a true crisis.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

What some people lack in intelligence, they more than make up for stupidity.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

The number of adjectives and verbs that are added to the description of a menu item is in inverse proportion to the quality of the dish.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Murphy’s Laws

Give him an inch and he'll screw you.

Conflict Murphy’s Laws

1. Nothing is ever so bad it can't be made worse by firing the coach. 2. A free agent is anything but. 3. Whatever can go to New York will..

Activities Murphy’s Laws New York City Places Sports

When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue.

Murphy’s Laws

Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.

Murphy’s Laws Places Things

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

Murphy’s Laws

The combat worth of a unit is inversely proportional to the smartness of its outfit and appearance.

Military Murphy’s Laws

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

Murphy’s Laws

Officials make work for each other.

Murphy’s Laws People Work

If you pick up a chunk of broken concrete and try to pitch it into an adjacent lot, it will hit a tree limb and come down right on the driver’s side of your car windshield.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

No matter which book you need, it's on the bottom shelf.

Books Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.

Murphy’s Laws People

1. All the IVs are at the other end of the hall.

2. There are two kinds of adhesive tape: the one that won't stay on and the one that won't come off.

Health Murphy’s Laws

Spend sufficient time in confirming the need and the need will disappear.

Murphy’s Laws Time

In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems