Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 20)

Those who know the least will always know it the loudest.

A clever remark is one you don’t make at the appropriate moment but compose immediately after.

Don't let your superiors know you're better than they are.

Never characterize the importance of a statement in advance.

The one piece that holds the whole thing together will be missing.

The sloppier the rebel uniform, the more likely the overthrow of the existing government.

Always leave room to add an explanation if it doesn't work out.

All the good ones are taken.

If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number.

Any system or program, however complicated, if looked at in exactly the right way, will become even more complicated.

No experiment is reproducible.

Everyone wants to be noticed but no one wants to be stared at.

If a piece of buttered toast falls, it will land face down.

Those who don’t study the past will repeat its errors; those who do study it will find OTHER ways to err.

There is no direct relationship between the quality of an educational program and its cost.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.

The Cavalry doesn’t always come to the rescue.

If you change lines, the one you just left will start to move faster than the one you are now in.

The incidence of anything worthwhile is either 15-25 percent or 80-90 percent.

If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong.

In my opinion I think that the author when he is writing should not get into the habit of making use of too many unnecessary words which he does not really need.