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Murphy’s Laws
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Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen, especially when people are looking.
Fetridge's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Important things
Occurences
Witnesses
There is always a way… and it usually doesn’t work.
Anonymous Murphy’s Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
If it can be borrowed and it can be broken, you will borrow it and you will break it.
Babcock's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Borrowing
Breaking
In matters of dispute, the bank's balance is always smaller than yours.
Checkbook Balancer's Law
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Banks
The best simple-minded test of expertise in a particular area is the ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.
Allison's Precept
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Betting
Expertise
There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday.
Hanson's Treatment of Time
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Day
Hours
Saturday
Any paint, regardless of quality or composition, will adhere permanently to any surface, prepared or otherwise, if applied accidentally.
Minton's Law of Painting
Murphy’s Laws
Things
On painter J. M. W. Turner's ‘The Slave Ship'
The one who says it can’t be done shouldn’t interrupt the one doing it.
Roman Rule
Murphy’s Laws
Work
Interruption
Verbs has to agree with their subject.
The 19 Rules for Good Riting - 3
Communication
Language
Murphy’s Laws
Reading/Writing
Expenditure rises to meet income.
Parkinson's Second Law
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Expenditure
Income
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Clarke's Second Law
Murphy’s Laws
Possibilities
Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.
Billings's Law
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Everything is cold except what should be.
Law of Institutional Food
Cold
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Institutions
Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.
Law of Lawmaking
Government
Ideas
Intelligence
Law
Murphy’s Laws
Legislature
1. The telephone will ring when you are outside the door, fumbling for your keys.2. You will reach it just in time to hear the click of the caller hanging up.
Bess’s Universal Principles
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Telephone
You will save yourself a lot of needless worry if you don't burn your bridges until you come to them.
First Rule of Negative Anticipation
Murphy’s Laws
Situations
Time
Burning bridges
Worry
Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
Laws of Computer Programming IX
Mistakes
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Everything costs more and takes longer.
Pournelle's Law of Costs and Schedules
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Expense
The business contact that you have developed at great expense is the first person to be let go in any corporate reorganization.
Joe's Law
Murphy’s Laws
People
Teamwork is essential… it allows you to blame someone else.
Finagle's Eighth Rule
Murphy’s Laws
Blame
Teamwork
All probabilities are 50%; either a thing will happen or it won't.
Colvard's Logical Premise
Murphy’s Laws
Probabilities
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