Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 22)

Highways in the worst need of repair naturally have low traffic counts, which results in low priority for repair work.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof.

A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.

Any inanimate object, regardless of its position, configuration or purpose, may be expected to perform at any time in a totally unexpected manner for reasons that are either entirely obscure or else completely mysterious.

As soon as you are served hot chow in the field, it rains

This lane ends in 500 feet.

If only one solution can be found for a field problem, then it is usually a stupid solution.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.

Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

All general statements are false.

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.

There are only two problems with people: One is that they don't think; The other is that they do.

If it’s clean, it isn’t laundry.

If your next pot of chili tastes better, it probably is because of something left out, rather than added.

Brute force, clumsiness, ignorance, and superstition will always triumph over science, skill, knowledge, and logic.

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

The amount of time you have to wait for a bus is directly proportional to the inclemency of the weather.

Murphy was an optimist.

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, any experimental organism will do as it damn well pleases.