Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 58)

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Nothing is so simple it cannot be misunderstood.

Murphy’s Laws

If a situation requires undivided attention, it will occur simultaneously with a compelling distraction.


Murphy’s Laws Situations

If you have to park six blocks away, you will find two new parking spaces right in front of the building entrance.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

1. When in charge ponder
2. When in trouble delegate
3. When in doubt mumble.

Murphy’s Laws Speech

The crucial memorandum will be snared in the out-basket by the paper clip of the overlying correspondence and go to file.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

The person who buys the most raffle tickets has the least chance of winning.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws

Twits beget twits.

Family Murphy’s Laws

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because the worms are scarce.

Murphy’s Laws

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts – not the facts themselves.

Facts Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

Established technology tends to persist in spite of new technology.

Murphy’s Laws

Mother nature is a bitch.

Murphy’s Laws

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Fools Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

20% of the customers account for 80% of the turnover, 20% of the components account for 80% of the cost, and so forth.

Murphy’s Laws

Given any problem containing N equations, there will be N+1 unknowns.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it's compromising.

Money Murphy’s Laws

No plan survives first contact intact.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The easier it is to do the harder it is to change.

Murphy’s Laws

One child is not enough, but two children are far too many.

Children Family Murphy’s Laws

Anything may be divided into as many parts as you please.

Murphy’s Laws

Anything worth doing is worth doing for money.

Money Murphy’s Laws Work