Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 80)

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If only two cars are left in a vast parking lot, one will be blocking the other.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech Time

The world is more complicated than most of our theories make it out to be.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Places World

The faster a computer is, the faster it will reach a crashed state.

Computers Failure Murphy’s Laws Things

If rats are experimented upon, they will develop cancer.

Murphy’s Laws

Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.

Murphy’s Laws

Whenever you lose contact with the enemy, look behind you.

Military Murphy’s Laws

Possessions increase to fill the space available for their storage.

Murphy’s Laws Things

The longer the title, the less important the job.

Murphy’s Laws Work

If a thing cannot be fitted into something smaller than itself, some dope will do it.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

How attractive a given person appears to be is directly proportionate to how unattractive your date is.

Appearance Dating Murphy’s Laws People Relationships

A bus will arrive only when the would-be rider has walked to a point so close to the destination that it is no longer worthwhile to board the bus.

Murphy’s Laws

Exceptions prove the rule… and wreck the budget.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster.

Murphy’s Laws

Computing power increases as the square of the cost; if you want to do it twice as cheaply, you have to do it four times slower.

Computers Money Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Situations Things

There is no such thing as a ‘little bit of garlic.’

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Usefulness is inversely proportional to reputation for being useful.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws Time

If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown.

Murphy’s Laws People

Variables won't, constants aren't.

Murphy’s Laws

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Failure Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems