Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 37)

Space expands to house the people to perform the work that Congress creates.

Careful planning has no affect on either Part 1 or Part 2.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

If you want a track team to win the high jump you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot.

The number of women a man find attractive is truly proportionate to his age.

He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next freeway exit.

A retreating enemy is probably just falling back and regrouping.

Things will get worse before they get better; Who said things would get better?

Confusion creates jobs.

The first sample is always the best.

Brute force, clumsiness, ignorance, and superstition will always triumph over science, skill, knowledge, and logic.

There are four kinds of people: those who sit quietly and do nothing, those who talk about sitting quietly and doing nothing, those who do things, and those who talk about doing things.

Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

Highways in the worst need of repair naturally have low traffic counts, which results in low priority for repair work.

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

Any theory can be made to fit any facts by means of appropriate additional assumptions.

A $300 picture tube will protect a 10¢ fuse by blowing first.

Professional soldiers are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs.

When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?"

When you can’t discover the cause of a breakdown, all of the free advice you get will be for things you’ve already checked.

Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of 2 to 4 the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical.