Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 44)

The lagging activity in a project will invariably be found in the area where the highest overtime rates lie waiting.

A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

When our friends get into power, they aren’t our friends any more.

The most expensive component is the one that breaks.

Everything costs more and takes longer.

Everyone has a scheme that will not work.

Never trust a private with a loaded weapon, or an officer with a map and compass.

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.

The wages of sin are unreported.

Reforms come from below; no man with four aces howls for a new deal.

It is much harder to find a job than to keep one.

You can never be sure how many beers you had last night.

If it tastes good, you can't have it; if it tastes awful, you'd better clean your plate.

The object or bit of information most needed will be least available.

Adding manpower to a late technology project only makes it later.

Chicken Little only has to be right once.

‘Push’ is the force exerted upon the door marked PULL.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Never throw away anything unless you know what it came from.

It (housework) expands to fill the time available plus half an hour: so obviously it is never finished.