Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 16)

He travels fastest who travels alone… but he hasn’t anything to do when he gets there.

1. You can't get anything without working for it.
2. The most you can accomplish by working is to break even.
3. You can only break even at absolute zero.

There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute strength and ignorance.

‘Push’ is the force exerted upon the door marked PULL.

No matter how many beautifully crafted, near-to-perfection baked goods you crank out on a regular basis, the moment one such item becomes required in some official capacity, it will flop.

He who hesitates is last.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

When in the course of human affairs – your spouse always finds out.

A committee of three gets things done if two don’t show up.

Overdoing things is harmful in all cases, even when it comes to efficiency.

The length of time it takes a bill to pass through the legislature is in inverse proportion to the number of lobbying groups favoring it.

A cigarette placed in an ashtray will go out if you stay in the room; if you leave the room, the cigarette will topple to the table, burn through, and drop to the floor, where it will smolder until it descends to ignite the drapes in the room below.

Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Any decision is better than no decision.

Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.

The more complicated and grandiose the plan, the greater the chance of a screw-up.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

It if smells bad and is sticky, it will eventually find its way onto your children or your shoes.

When you are over the hill, you pick up speed.

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.