Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 31)

Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

The squeaky wheel gets replaced.

Politicians who vote huge expenditures to alleviate problems get re-elected; those who propose structural changes to prevent problems get early retirement.

Just when you get really good at something you don’t need to do it anymore.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons!

All-weather close air support doesn't work in bad weather.

New systems generate new problems.

1. Nothing is ever so bad it can't be made worse by firing the coach. 2. A free agent is anything but. 3. Whatever can go to New York will..

A component’s degree of reliability is directly proportional to its ease of accessibility (i.e., the harder it is to get to, the more often it breaks down).

On the TV screen, pure drivel tends to drive off ordinary drivel.

As an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) grows longer, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or Nazism.

Always assume that your assumption is invalid.

Truth varies.

If you mess with something long enough, it'll break.

The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

If you start walking, the bus will come when you are precisely halfway between stops.

The more ridiculous a belief system, the higher the probability of its success.

Once the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.

Auditors always reject any expense account with a bottom line divisible by five or ten.

The most valuable quotation will be the one for which you cannot determine the source.

The only imperfect thing in nature is the human race.