Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 45)

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The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required on it.

Body Cold Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Situations

Absolutum obsoletum – if it works, it’s out of date.

(1926 – 2002) British management theorist & professor
Murphy’s Laws Time

Batteries die at the most critical time of the most complex problem.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.

Murphy’s Laws

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

If you don't say it, they can't repeat it.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for every week you're away and get nothing done, there's another week when your boss is away and you get twice as much done.

Murphy’s Laws Work

A crisis is when you can't say "let's forget the whole thing."

Murphy’s Laws

In matters of dispute, the bank's balance is always smaller than yours.

Money Murphy’s Laws

No one is as ugly as their passport photo.

Appearance Murphy’s Laws Ugly

Some object to the fan dancer, others to the fan.

Murphy’s Laws Opinion

The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability.

Murphy’s Laws

If you use a pole saw to saw a limb while standing on an aluminum ladder borrowed from your neighbor, the limb will fall in such a way as to bend the ladder before it knocks you to the ground.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The first requisite of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Things

No experiment is reproducible.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

The only imperfect thing in nature is the human race.

Murphy’s Laws People

Passengers on elevators constantly rearrange their positions as people get on and off so there is at all times an equal distance between all bodies.

Murphy’s Laws

Anyone who says he isn't going to resign, four times… definitely will.

Murphy’s Laws

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Murphy’s Laws

The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.

Money Murphy’s Laws

You can go home again – you just can’t stay there.

Murphy’s Laws Places