Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 41)

A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

When the issue is trivial, and everyone understands it, debate is almost interminable.

He who shouts loudest has the floor.

The lead in a pencil will break in direct proportion to the importance of the notes being taken.

1. Any great truth can – and eventually will – be expressed as a cliche.

2. Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong – but that’s the way to bet.

Bad regulation begets worse regulation.

The customer is always ripe.

It's easier to be a liberal a long way from home.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

The distance you have to park from your apartment increases in proportion to the weight of packages you are carrying.

Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

The public is always wrong.

A little ambiguity never hurt anyone.

The less you know about an opportunity, the more attractive it is.

Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster.

You only have a problem if you think it is a problem.

People would rather live with a problem they cannot solve than accept a solution they cannot understand.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

The fury engendered by the misspelling of a name in a (newspaper) column is in direct ratio to the obscurity of the mentionee.