Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 26)

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


Chaos always wins, because it’s better organized.

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

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

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

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

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.

Never drink anything that’s still on fire.

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

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

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

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

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

All women marry beneath them.

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

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

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.

Assumption is the mother of all foul-ups.

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.

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

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