Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 79)

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Ideas endure and prosper in inverse proportion to their soundness and validity.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Things

The number of adjectives and verbs that are added to the description of a menu item is in inverse proportion to the quality of the dish.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Everyone wants to be noticed but no one wants to be stared at.

Murphy’s Laws

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.

Murphy’s Laws

Any tool dropped while repairing an automobile will roll under the car to the vehicle's exact geographic center.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

McGurk's Law

Murphy’s Laws

The most undesirable things are the most certain (death and taxes).

Death Murphy’s Laws Problems Taxes

Push something hard enough and it will fall over.

Murphy’s Laws Things

People will believe anything if you whisper it.

Beliefs Communication Murphy’s Laws

Nothing ever comes out as planned.

Murphy’s Laws

How to locate the slow-moving traffic lane or check-out land: Get in it.

Murphy’s Laws

The more zeros found in the price tag for a government program, the less Congressional scrutiny it will receive.

Congress Government Money Murphy’s Laws

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.

Murphy’s Laws People

All things being equal, you lose.
Corollary: All things being in your favor, you still lose.

Murphy’s Laws

Odd objects attract fire… never lurk behind one.

Military Murphy’s Laws

If you have the facts on your side, hammer the facts. If you have the law on your side, hammer the law. If you have neither the facts nor the law, hammer the table.

Facts Government Law Murphy’s Laws

Adding manpower to a late technology project only makes it later.

Murphy’s Laws People Time

Never tell them what you wouldn't do.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

The First Law of Economists: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist.
The Second Law of Economists: They're both wrong.

Murphy’s Laws

No real problem has a solution.

Murphy’s Laws Problems