Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 61)

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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

If you do not understand a particular word in a piece of technical writing, ignore it; the piece will make perfect sense without it.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Understanding

Don't let your superiors know you're better than they are.

Murphy’s Laws

The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

If you can be off by one… you will be.

Murphy’s Laws

You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

No matter how many hot dogs you consume at home, they always taste better at the ball park.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

If a research project is not worth doing at all, it is not worth doing well.

Murphy’s Laws

Whenever an expert is confounded by a seemingly insoluble problem, the solution is immediately obvious to the first unqualified person who happens along.

Murphy’s Laws

The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

Military Murphy’s Laws

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Life Murphy’s Laws Time

Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress – in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution.

Murphy’s Laws

The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

Murphy’s Laws War

When a broken appliance is demonstrated to the repairman, it will work perfectly.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed.

Murphy’s Laws Work

I called my lawyer and said, ‘Can I ask you two questions?’ He said, ‘What’s the second question?

Government Lawyers Murphy’s Laws

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

Give him an inch and he'll screw you.

Conflict Murphy’s Laws

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

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Money Murphy’s Laws Things

Love letters, business contracts and money due you always arrive three weeks late, whereas junk mail arrives the day it was sent.

Murphy’s Laws Time

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws