Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 19)

Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of 2 to 4 the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Whatever you did, that's what you planned.

Anything dropped in the bathroom falls in the toilet.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Chicken Little only has to be right once.

Virtue is its own punishment.

Nine times out of ten in the arts, as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

You have taken yourself too seriously.

All things being equal, you lose.
Corollary: All things being in your favor, you still lose.

Trivial matters are handled promptly; important matters are never resolved.

You can't fall off the floor.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part you didn't think was important.

If the shoe fits, it’s ugly.

In a three story building served by one elevator, the elevator car will be on a floor where you are not.

The only people making money these days are the ones who sell computer paper.

An inexorable upward movement leads administrators to higher salaries and narrower spans of control.

A man should be greater than some of his parts.

Traffic increases to fill the road space available.

Things that must be together to work usually can't be shipped together; things which must be shipped together as a set, aren't.