Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 76)

There is always one more bug.

Given a conflict, Murphy’s Law supersedes Newton’s.

If you don’t feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there you’ll feel better; but don’t make an appointment, and you’ll stay sick.

The one who says it can’t be done shouldn’t interrupt the one doing it.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

The job that pays the most will be offered when there is no time to deliver the services.

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

The accessibility, during recovery of small parts which fall from the work bench, varies directly with the size of the part and inversely with its importance to the completion of the work underway.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

The perceived usefulness of an article is inversely proportional to its actual usefulness once bought and paid for.

1. Any great truth can – and eventually will – be expressed as a cliche.

2. Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

Competence always contains the seed of incompetence.

Nearly all prophecies made in public are wrong.

Only after locking your toolbox/shed at the end of a DIY job do you find another tool to return to your toolbox/shed.

It is usually impractical to worry beforehand about interferences; if you have none, someone will make one for you.

Whatever goes us, stays up.

The leak in the roof is never in the same location as the drip.

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.

Overdoing things is harmful in all cases, even when it comes to efficiency.

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Tracers work BOTH ways.