Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 68)

One man's red tape is another man's system.

Anything is possible if you don’t know what you are talking about.

Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor’s course.

If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented, it wasn't worth doing.

The first myth of management is that it exists.
The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
Corollary (Johnson) – Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within your organization.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons!

The hardness of the butter is in direct proportion to the softness of the roll.

With extremely few exceptions, nothing is worth the trouble.

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

Every great idea has a disadvantage equal to or exceeding the greatness of the idea.

Any experiment is reproducible until another laboratory tries to repeat it.

The sun always shines between the visors.

1. Dust breeds 2. One's roommate (who has early classes) has an alarm clock that is louder than God's own. 3. When one has an early class, one's roommate will invariably enter the space late at night and suddenly become hyperactive, ill, violent, or all three.

An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.

The bag that breaks is the one with the eggs.

If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.

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

The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting on the nothing you are doing.

Spend sufficient time confirming the need and the need will disappear.

One cannot have too large a party.

The leak in the roof is never in the same location as the drip.