Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 56)

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The length of debate varies inversely with the complexity of the issue.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average drivers.

Beliefs Driving Murphy’s Laws Opinion People

The difficulty of finding any given trail marker is directly proportional to the importance of the consequences of failing to find it.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.

Murphy’s Laws People

If at first you don’t succeed, read the manual.

Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Whatever carrousel you stand by, your baggage will come in on another one.

Murphy’s Laws Travel

The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack.

Military Murphy’s Laws

While the difficulties and dangers of problems tend to increase at a geometric rate, the knowledge and manpower qualified to deal with these problems tend to increase linearly.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Science/Weather

Bad regulation begets worse regulation.

Murphy’s Laws

The more zeros found in the price tag for a government program, the less Congressional scrutiny it will receive.

Congress Government Money Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws

If you did manage to get any good shots, they will be ruined when someone inadvertently opens the darkroom door and all of the dark leaks out.

Murphy’s Laws Places

When all else fails, follow instructions.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Make it sufficiently difficult for people to do something, and most people will stop doing it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The amount of intelligence on Earth is infinite; the population increases exponentially.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Nobody notices the big errors.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

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?"

Murphy’s Laws Problems

A rumor will travel fastest to the place where it will cause the greatest harm.

Murphy’s Laws

1. The more tangled your line is, the better the fishing is around you. 2. The time available to go fishing shrinks as the fishing season draws nearer. 3. The least experienced fisherman always catches the biggest fish.
Corollary: The more elaborate and costly the equipment, the greater chance of having to stop at the fish market on the way home.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Sports

The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank. The really big chunks always rise to the top.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Facts Intelligence Murphy’s Laws