Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 2)

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The longer you wait in line, the greater the likelihood that you are in the wrong line.

Murphy’s Laws

A writer mustn’t shift your point of view.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Automatic weapons – aren’t.

Arms Military Murphy’s Laws

Performance is directly affected by the perversity of inanimate objects.

Murphy’s Laws Things

The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map.

Military Murphy’s Laws War

Most accidents in well-designed systems involve two or more events of low probability occurring in the worst possible combination.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

The bigger they are, the harder they hit.

Fights Murphy’s Laws

Seven-eighths of everything can't be seen.

Murphy’s Laws

1. Never draw what you can copy.
2. Never copy what you can trace.
3. Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

When you look for something you will not find it, but when you are looking for something else you will.

Murphy’s Laws

The intensity of movie publicity is in inverse ratio to the quality of the movie.

Entertainment Film Murphy’s Laws

It is better to have a horrible ending than to have horrors without end.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

All politics is local.

Government Murphy’s Laws Places Politics

When you're up to your nose, keep your mouth shut.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

Justice always prevails… three times out of seven.

Murphy’s Laws

Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.

Computers Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Things

If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will have more than your fair share to take.

Military Murphy’s Laws

If someone says, "I'm expensive" – believe them.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Truck deliveries that normally take one day will take five when you are waiting for the truck.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

People with money live so damn long.

Age Life Murphy’s Laws Old

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

Murphy’s Laws Problems