Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 74)

The worst golf shots always occur when playing with someone you are trying to impress.

If you start to clean your desk in the spare bedroom you will probably have to clean the garage to find what you need to finish cleaning the desk.

If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.

The best shots are generally attempted through the lens cap.

The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.

When a politician gets an idea, he usually gets it wrong.

All pluses have their minuses.

Nothing is so frustrating as a bad situation that is beginning to improve.

Name on building: upper class. Name on desk: middle class. Name on shirt: working class

The progress of science varies inversely with the number of journals published.

The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions.

An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again.

1. Anyone else who can be blamed should be blamed. 2. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong faster with computers. 3. Whenever a computer can be blamed, it should be blamed.

Never try to replicate a successful experiment.

Create the impression that you have already reached your level of incompetence.

No child throws up in the bathroom.