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Murphy’s Laws
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One man's red tape is another man's system.
Waldo's Observation
Murphy’s Laws
Red Tape
Anything is possible if you don’t know what you are talking about.
Law of Logical Argument
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
Knowledge
Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor’s course.
Fourth Law of Applied Terror
Education
Learning
Murphy’s Laws
Class
Instructors
If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented, it wasn't worth doing.
Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis
Murphy’s Laws
Bureaucracy
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.
Heller's Myths of Management
Murphy’s Laws
Work
Management
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons!
A Murphy's Military Law
Arms
Conflict
Military
Murphy’s Laws
Reading/Writing
The hardness of the butter is in direct proportion to the softness of the roll.
Thiessen's Law of Gastronomy
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Butter
With extremely few exceptions, nothing is worth the trouble.
Epstein's Axiom
Murphy’s Laws
Trouble
It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
Canada Bill Jones's Motto
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Suckers
Every great idea has a disadvantage equal to or exceeding the greatness of the idea.
Hunt’s Law
Ideas
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
Any experiment is reproducible until another laboratory tries to repeat it.
Kohn's Second Law
Murphy’s Laws
Experiments
The sun always shines
between
the visors.
Backlund’s Automotive Constant
Autos
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Peggy-Lynn Backlund
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.
Corollaries to the Laws of Dormitory Life
Murphy’s Laws
Dormitories
Roommates
An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
Van Roy's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Unbreakable toy
The bag that breaks is the one with the eggs.
Woodside's Grocery Principle
Accidents
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Bags
Eggs
If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.
Corollary to the Fifth Law of Applied Terror
Education
Murphy’s Laws
Places
School
Exams
For every problem science solves, it creates ten new one.
Shaw’s Axiom
Murphy’s Laws
George Bernard Shaw
Science
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.
Cohn's Law
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Progress
Spend sufficient time confirming the need and the need will disappear.
Ed's Fifth Rule of Procrastination
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Confirmation
Needs
One cannot have too large a party.
Austen’s Rule of Hospitality
Murphy’s Laws
In “Emma”
Jane Austen
Party
The leak in the roof is never in the same location as the drip.
Cannon's Cogent Comment
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Sources
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The leak in the roof is never in the same location as the drip.