Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 69)

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If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number.

Murphy’s Laws

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Mediocrity imitates.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

If the people of a democracy are allowed to do so, they will vote away the freedoms which are essential to that democracy.

Democracy Elections/Voting Government Murphy’s Laws

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax.

Murphy’s Laws Taxes Time

Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

Computers Murphy’s Laws Things

No matter what goes wrong, there’s always someone who will say he knew it would.

Murphy’s Laws People Problems

The weight of your pack increases in direct proportion to the amount of food you consume from it; if you run out of food, the pack weight goes on increasing anyway.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.
Corollary: Corresponding errors will show up in the duplicate while the boss is reading it.

Communication Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

Nothing is a temporary as that which is called permanent.

Corollary: Nothing is a permanent as that which is called temporary.

Murphy’s Laws

Whatever creates the greatest inconvenience for the largest number must happen.

Murphy’s Laws People

About sentence fragments.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

People who eat natural foods will die of natural causes.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws

If the experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment.

Murphy’s Laws Success

People would rather live with a problem they cannot solve than accept a solution they cannot understand.

Murphy’s Laws

If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy.

Military Murphy’s Laws

All great discoveries are made by mistake

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

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.

Computers Murphy’s Laws Things

When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for every week you're away and get nothing done, there's another week when your boss is away and you get twice as much done.

Murphy’s Laws Work

One missed photographic opportunity creates a desire to purchase two additional pieces of equipment.

Murphy’s Laws