Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 19)

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

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Places

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

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Whatever you did, that's what you planned.

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Anything dropped in the bathroom falls in the toilet.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Murphy’s Laws

Chicken Little only has to be right once.

Murphy’s Laws

Virtue is its own punishment.

Murphy’s Laws

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.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws

You have taken yourself too seriously.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws People Self

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

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws Time

You can't fall off the floor.

Alcohol Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

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

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

If the shoe fits, it’s ugly.

Clothing Murphy’s Laws Ugly

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

Murphy’s Laws

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

Computers Money Murphy’s Laws Things

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

Money Murphy’s Laws

A man should be greater than some of his parts.

Murphy’s Laws People

Traffic increases to fill the road space available.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

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

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