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Murphy’s Laws
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The worst golf shots always occur when playing with someone you are trying to impress.
Anonymous Murphy’s Law
Golf
Murphy’s Laws
People
Sports
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.
Watson's Law of Cleaning
Housework
Murphy’s Laws
Cleaning
If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.
Chisholm's Second Corollary
Murphy’s Laws
The best shots are generally attempted through the lens cap.
Second Law of Photography
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Cameras
Lens cap
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
Cole's Axiom
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
World
Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.
Pohl's Law
Beliefs
Murphy’s Laws
Opinion
When a politician gets an idea, he usually gets it wrong.
Fifth Rule of Politics
Ideas
Murphy’s Laws
Politicians
All pluses have their minuses.
George's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Minuses
Pluses
Nothing is so frustrating as a bad situation that is beginning to improve.
Shannon Observation
Murphy’s Laws
Situations
William Shannon
Name on building: upper class. Name on desk: middle class. Name on shirt: working class
Brooksmith’s Law of Class Distinction
Murphy’s Laws
Class
Names
The progress of science varies inversely with the number of journals published.
Parkinson's Sixth Law
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Reading/Writing
Science/Weather
Journals
Progress
The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions.
A Murphy's Military Law
Military
Murphy’s Laws
An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals.
Parkinson's Axioms I
Murphy’s Laws
People
The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.
Jones's Law
Characteristics
Murphy’s Laws
Blame
Smiling
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Ehrlich's Rule
Activities
Murphy’s Laws
Parts
Saving
Tinkering
Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.
Allen's Law
Murphy’s Laws
People
Complication
If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again.
Denniston’s Corollary
Murphy’s Laws
People
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.
Parallels To Murphy's Law
Computers
Murphy’s Laws
Blame
Never try to replicate a successful experiment.
Fett's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Experiments
Create the impression that you have already reached your level of incompetence.
Peter's Rule for Creative Incompetence
Murphy’s Laws
Incompetence
No child throws up in the bathroom.
Laura's Law
Children
Health
Murphy’s Laws
Bathrooms
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