Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 50)

An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

If you file it, you'll know where it is but never need it. If you don't file it, you'll need it but never know where it is.

Statistics are no substitute for common sense.

Any task worth doing was worth doing yesterday.

Experiments should be reproducible… they should all fail in the same way.

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

(1887 – 1943) theater critic & commentator

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved with the broth.

Never needlessly disturb a thing at rest.

The amount of work done varies inversely with the amount of time spent in the office.

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

An intelligent person can make a dumber statement than an idiot. The idiot is limited to his imbecility.

The chances of anybody doing anything are inversely proportional to the number of other people who are in a position to do it instead.

The longer you wait in line, the greater the likelihood that you are in the wrong line.

The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs.

It will always break just when you need it the most.

No real problem has a solution.

Infinity is one lawyer waiting for another.

Don't use a run-on sentence you got to punctuate it.

Thinly sliced cabbage.

Two percent don’’t get the word.

Them what gets – has.