Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 15)

Any task worth doing was worth doing yesterday.

The more qualified candidates who are available, the more likely the compromise will be on the candidate whose main qualification is a non-threatening incompetence.

Information travels more surely to those with a lesser need to know.

Neutral countries – aren’t.

Class schedules are designed so that every student will have time to waste between classes.

Incoming fire has the right of way.

Absolutum obsoletum – If it works, it’s out of date.

If you're coasting, you're going downhill.

Whatever creates the greatest inconvenience for the largest number must happen.

Never make a decision that you can get someone else to make.

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

The program you've been looking forward to all week will be preempted.

Merely because the group is in formation does not mean that the group is on the right course.

Murphy's Law was not propounded by Murphy, but by another man with the same name.

The life expectancy of a house plant varies inversely with its price and directly with its ugliness.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it's compromising.

Never enter a battle of wits half-armed.

The bigger they are, the harder it is to see your shoes.

A pair of scissors should be a true pair; the second pair is to be used in place of the pair that is never where it is always supposed to be.