Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 63)

The amateur is the one with all the answers.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.

A committee of three gets things done if two don’t show up.

Flying pests are more likely to enter the ears, eyes, nose and throat when both hands are in use.

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.

When anything is used to its full potential, it will break.

There is more law in the end of a policeman’s nightstick than in a decision of the Supreme Court.

The distance to the gate from which your flight departs is inversely proportional to the time remaining before the scheduled departure of the flight.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

If you don’t feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there you’ll feel better; but don’t make an appointment, and you’ll stay sick.

An object will fall so as to do the most damage.

The specialist learns more and more about less and less until, finally, he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist learns less and less about more and more until, finally, he knows nothing about everything.

People will buy anything that's one to a customer.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.

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

Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.

Those who know the least will always know it the loudest.

The only time you come up with a great solution is after somebody else has solved the problem.

A consultant may be defined as an unemployed practitioner.

The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)