Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 34)

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If rats are experimented upon, they will develop cancer.

Murphy’s Laws

No matter how many times you've had it, if it's offered, take it, because it'll never be quite the same again.

Murphy’s Laws

If you take something apart and put it back together enough times, eventually you will have two of them.

Murphy’s Laws

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts – not the facts themselves.

Facts Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.

Communication Ideas Intelligence Language Murphy’s Laws

When you are right, be logical; when you are wrong, be-fuddle.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

If you allow someone to get in front of you, you both will have the same destination, and the other car will get the last parking space.

Driving Murphy’s Laws

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

A consultant may be defined as an unemployed practitioner.

Murphy’s Laws

Don’t ever be the first, don’t ever be the last and don’t ever volunteer to do anything.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The longer ahead you plan a special event, and the more special it is, the more likely it is to go wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

1. The more tangled your line is, the better the fishing is around you. 2. The time available to go fishing shrinks as the fishing season draws nearer. 3. The least experienced fisherman always catches the biggest fish.
Corollary: The more elaborate and costly the equipment, the greater chance of having to stop at the fish market on the way home.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Sports

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible that you haven’t understood the situation.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Negative slack tends to increase.

Murphy’s Laws

The public is always wrong.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws People

A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years.

Computers Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Things Time

There's nothing to scratch but the surface.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws Problems

People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

The probability of meeting someone you know increases dramatically when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

Murphy’s Laws People Situations

If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; if you can't pick it up, paint it.

Military Murphy’s Laws