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The price of any product produced for a government agency will be not less than the square of the initial Firm Fixed-Price Contract.

Connolly's Law of Cost Control

Government Money Murphy’s Laws Contracts Prices

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

Alicia’s Discovery

Murphy’s Laws Alicia Dustria

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Lance’s Law

Murphy’s Laws Problems (Bert Lance)

Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence in their colleagues.

Peter's Paradox

Murphy’s Laws Work Employees Incompetence

Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.

Fifth Law of Office Murphology

Communication Murphy’s Laws Papers

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility, and vice versa.

Parker's Law of Political Statements

Murphy’s Laws Propositions

If you can’t explain what you’re doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.

Kahn's Law

Communication Intelligence Language Murphy’s Laws Simple English Wrong

If Congress must do a painful thing, the thing must be done in an odd-number year.

Pickle's Law

Congress Government Murphy’s Laws Time

The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

First Law of Advice

Murphy’s Laws Opinion Advice

The effort of catching a falling object will cause more destruction than if the object had been allowed to fall in the first place.

Fulton's Law of Gravity

Murphy’s Laws Problems Science/Weather Things Effort Gravity

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.

Michael’s Law of Advocacy

Facts Government Law Murphy’s Laws (Jerome Michael)

If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Murphy's Fifth Law

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The less you know about an opportunity, the more attractive it is.

Bishop’s Law

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Opportunity Sidney Gross

Nature abhors people.

Thine's Law

Murphy’s Laws People Nature

What this world needs is a damned good plague.

Larrimer's Constant

Health Murphy’s Laws Places World Plague

No matter what stage of completion one reaches, the cost of the remainder of the project remains constant.

Sixth Law of Project Management

Murphy’s Laws

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much… then again, don’t drink too little.

Smith-Johannsen’s Secret of Longevity

Age Alcohol Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Old Herman “Jackrabbit” Smith-Johannsen 103-year-old Canadian cross-country skier

You climb the ladder of success easier when you lay it flat.

Dietvorst's Law

Murphy’s Laws Success

One good turn gets most of the blanket.

Ellenberg's Theory

Communication Murphy’s Laws Blankets

No books are lost by loaning except those you particularly wanted to keep.

Fourteenth Corollary of Atwood's General Law of Dynamic Negative

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Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 80)

Never characterize the importance of a statement in advance.

The price of any product produced for a government agency will be not less than the square of the initial Firm Fixed-Price Contract.

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 it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence in their colleagues.

Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility, and vice versa.

If you can’t explain what you’re doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.

If Congress must do a painful thing, the thing must be done in an odd-number year.

The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

The effort of catching a falling object will cause more destruction than if the object had been allowed to fall in the first place.

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.

If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

The less you know about an opportunity, the more attractive it is.

Nature abhors people.

What this world needs is a damned good plague.

No matter what stage of completion one reaches, the cost of the remainder of the project remains constant.

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much… then again, don’t drink too little.

You climb the ladder of success easier when you lay it flat.

One good turn gets most of the blanket.

No books are lost by loaning except those you particularly wanted to keep.