Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 8)

Nine times out of ten in the arts, as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

1. If you can only do one thing well there is no market for it.

2. You can never do just one thing.

A simple story, however inaccurate or misleading, is preferred to a complicated explanation, however true.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it's compromising.

People who park on the cast side of a football stadium will invariably have seats on the west side.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Any horizontal surface is soon piled up.

Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so they always point upwards from the floor… especially in the dark.

Experiments should be reproducible… they should all fail in the same way.

If your condition seems to be getting better, it's probably your doctor getting sick.

There are four kinds of people: those who sit quietly and do nothing, those who talk about sitting quietly and doing nothing, those who do things, and those who talk about doing things.

The number of women a man find attractive is truly proportionate to his age.

Design flaws travel in groups.

If you want a track team to win the high jump you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot.

If at first you don’t succeed, read the manual.

When both sides are convinced they are about to lose, they're both right.

An unwatched pot boils immediately.

Attempt to be seen with important people.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

The faster the plane, the narrower the seats.