Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 20)

It goes in – it must come out.

The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.

If at first you don't succeed, call in an airstrike.

The possibility of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says "you can't miss it."

Anybody can win – unless there happens to be a second entry.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

If a thing cannot be fitted into something smaller than itself, some dope will do it.

In every organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on… and this person must be fired.

If a string has one end, it has another.

The best investment opportunities are encountered when you are broke.

Where zoning is not needed, it will work perfectly; where it is desperately needed, it always breaks down.

An unwatched pot boils immediately.

Anything hit with a big enough hammer will fall apart.

Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.

Kickbacks must always exceed bribes.

The rush job you spent all night on won't be needed for at least two days.

No matter how minor the task, you will inevitably end up covered with grease and motor oil.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

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

Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.