Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 26)

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If a situation requires undivided attention, it will occur simultaneously with a compelling distraction.


Murphy’s Laws Situations

Chaos always wins, because it’s better organized.

Murphy’s Laws

Twitter makes you like people you don’t know, and Facebook makes you hate people you do

Communication Murphy’s Laws

The bus that left the stop just before you got there is your bus.

Murphy’s Laws

Anything you can do can get you killed – including doing nothing.

Military Murphy’s Laws

If “sense” is so common, how come we don’t see more of it around?

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

1. To get action out of management, it is necessary to create the illusion of a crisis in the hope it will be acted upon. 2. Management will select actions or events and convert them to crises. It will then over-react. 3. Management is incapable of recognizing a true crisis.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Never drink anything that’s still on fire.

Alcohol Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

It’s better to be tried by twelve men than to be carried by six.

Conflict Crime Death Government Law Murphy’s Laws

If only one price can be obtained for any quotation, the price will be unreasonable.

Money Murphy’s Laws

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

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.

Computers Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Things

If a headline ends in a question mark, the answer is “no.”

Headlines Murphy’s Laws

All women marry beneath them.

Marriage Murphy’s Laws Women

History does not repeat itself; historians simply repeat each other.

History Murphy’s Laws Time

If anything can go wrong it will go wrong when Mr. Murphy is out of town.

Murphy’s Laws

Every revolutionary idea – in Science, Politics, Art or whatever – evokes three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the three phrases: 1. It is completely impossible; don't waste my time. 2. It is possible, but it is not worth doing. 3. I said it was a good idea all along.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws People

Assumption is the mother of all foul-ups.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

Fuses never blow during daylight hours.
Corollary: Only after fuses blow do you discover the flashlight batteries are dead and you’re out of candles, or matches, or both.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The successful pundit is provided more opportunities to say things than he has things worth saying.

Murphy’s Laws

It is a mistake to let any mechanical object realize that you are in a hurry.

Murphy’s Laws Things Time