Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 68)

There are two types of dirt: the dark kind, which is attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is attracted to dark objects.

However much a shower control may rotate, the degree of rotation required to change from ice-cold to scalding is never more than one millimeter.

(1957 – ) New Zealand writer

The effort of catching a falling object will cause more destruction than if the object had been allowed to fall in the first place.

The greater the funding, the longer it takes to make the mistake.

For every problem science solves, it creates ten new one.

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

If “sense” is so common, how come we don’t see more of it around?

The workbench is always untidier than last time. General Law: The chaos in the universe always increases.

Given a conflict, Murphy’s Law supersedes Newton’s.

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action.

The only people making money these days are the ones who sell computer paper.

If you can't fix it, feature it.

1. Never play cards with a man called Doc.
2. Never eat at a place called Mom's.
3. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

The sumptuousnss of a company's annual report is in inverse proportion to its profitability that year.

The hidden flaw never remains hidden.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it.

A retreating enemy is probably just falling back and regrouping.

Incoming fire has the right-of-way.

Them what gets – has.

Murphy's Law cannot be proven, yet is correct, as when you try to prove Murphy's Law, you will see that the proof is incorrect. This is obviously due to Murphy's Law, therefore Murphy's Law is correct and proven.