Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 36)

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

Murphy’s Laws

It always takes longer to get there than to get back.

Murphy’s Laws Time Travel

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Age Death Murphy’s Laws Time Young

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish yourself as an expert.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Situations

An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals.

Murphy’s Laws People

Fear Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Murphy’s Laws

If the law-makers make a compromise, the place where it will be felt most is the taxpayer’s pocket.

Money Murphy’s Laws Politicians

Heat produced by pressure expands to fill the mind available, from which it can pass only to a cooler mind.

Emotions Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws People Problems Thinking

There is no proposition, no matter how foolish, for which a dozen Nobel signatures cannot be collected.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve; run with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened; keep the company of bums and you will become a bum; hang around with rich people and you will end by picking up the check and dying broke.

Characteristics Money Murphy’s Laws People

If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical methods.

Beliefs Facts Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Murphy’s Laws

If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Murphy’s Laws

Good times end too quickly. Bad times go on forever.

Life Murphy’s Laws Situations Time

As soon as you mention something, if it's good, it goes away; if it's bad, it happens.

Characteristics Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

Virtue is its own punishment.

Murphy’s Laws

If you want your name spelled wrong, die.

Communication Death Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Ninety percent of “everything” is crud.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Things

The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Murphy’s Laws Time

No matter what stage of completion one reaches in a North Sea (oil) field, the cost of the remainder of the project remains the same.

Money Murphy’s Laws