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The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

1. Giving away baby clothes and furniture is a major cause of pregnancy. 2. Always be backlit. 3. Sit down whenever possible.

Appearance Murphy’s Laws Situations

Truth varies.

Characteristics Government Honesty Murphy’s Laws Politics Truth

The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

If you start walking, the bus will come when you are precisely halfway between stops.

Murphy’s Laws

The splendor of an editor's speech and the splendor of his newspaper are inversely related to the distance between the city in which he makes his speech and the city in which he publishes his paper.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Places Reading/Writing Speech

The shortest distance between two points is a downward spiral.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

No matter what goes wrong, there’s always someone who will say he knew it would.

Murphy’s Laws People Problems

Enough is never enough.

Children Murphy’s Laws Situations

The person with the least expertise has the most opinions.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws Opinion

There are more horses’ asses in this world than there are horses.

Animals Murphy’s Laws People

A hand in the bush is worth two anywhere else.

Murphy’s Laws

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.

Computers Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Things

If you volunteer to do a task that nobody likes to do, you'll be expected to do it every time in the future.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Work

The incidence of anything worthwhile is either 15-25 percent or 80-90 percent.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

A bachelor can only chase a girl until she catches him.

Marriage Men Murphy’s Laws People Women

If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws

If anything can go wrong it will go wrong when Mr. Murphy is out of town.

Murphy’s Laws

The client who pays the least complains the most.

Money Murphy’s Laws

There is no proposition, no matter how foolish, for which a dozen Nobel signatures cannot be collected.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws