Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 71)

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No real problem has a solution.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Murphy’s Laws People Situations

Caveats are always* forgotten.
*Caveat: except in rare instances

Murphy’s Laws

You can’t lose an old golf ball.

Golf Murphy’s Laws Sports

If you want a track team to win the high jump you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot.

Murphy’s Laws Sports Success

1. The tide comes in and the tide goes out, and what have you got?
2. They say an elephant never forgets, but what's he got to remember?

Murphy’s Laws

A Woman's Rule of Thumb: If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it.

Murphy’s Laws Signs

If you do not understand a particular word in a piece of technical writing, ignore it; the piece will make perfect sense without it.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Understanding

Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.


Memory Murphy’s Laws People Problems Situations

All generalizations are false.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of 2 to 4 the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Places

All bridge hands are equally likely, but some are more equally likely than others.

Activities Games Murphy’s Laws

No matter what the experiment’s result, there will always be someone eager to: (a) misinterpret it, (b) fake it, or (c) believe it supports his own pet theory.

Murphy’s Laws

The successful pundit is provided more opportunities to say things than he has things worth saying.

Murphy’s Laws

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

(1887 – 1943) theater critic & commentator
Murphy’s Laws

Never characterize the importance of a statement in advance.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

1. No matter what they're telling you, they're not telling you the whole truth. 2. No matter what they're talking about, they're talking about money.

Characteristics Honesty Lies Money Murphy’s Laws Truth

No matter how clear the skies are, a thunderstorm will move in 5 minutes after the papers are delivered.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

All inanimate objects can move just enough to get in your way.

Murphy’s Laws Things