Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 78)

Every great idea has a disadvantage equal to or exceeding the greatness of the idea.

A road map always tells you everything except how to refold it.

If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented, it wasn't worth doing.

Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor’s course.

Second-rate people hire third-rate people.

No matter which side of door the cat or dog is on, it's the wrong side.

Some object to the fan dancer, others to the fan.

Politicians who vote huge expenditures to alleviate problems get re-elected; those who propose structural changes to prevent problems get early retirement.

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Careful planning has no affect on either Part 1 or Part 2.

When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.

When you move something to a more logical place, you only can remember where it used to be and your decision to move it.

If there are two possible ways to spell a person’s name, you will pick the wrong spelling.

No boss will keep an employee who is right all the time.

If you didn’t forget it, it’s the wrong size, backwards, inside out or out of reach.

Competence always contains the seed of incompetence.

The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can get done sometime next week.

It’s better to be tried by twelve men than to be carried by six.

The one who snores will fall asleep first.

Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.