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Murphy’s Laws
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A road map always tells you everything except how to refold it.
Grandma Soderquist's Second Observation
Murphy’s Laws
Maps
Seven-eighths of everything can't be seen.
Titanics Generalized Iceberg Theorem
Murphy’s Laws
Perception
Visible
Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least.
Rozanne Weissman
public relations manager
Characteristics
Murphy’s Laws
People
Approval
Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will find a need for them an hour later.
Witten's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Fingernails
Twitter makes you like people you don’t know, and Facebook makes you hate people you do
Shawn’s Observation
Shawn Holland
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Facebook
Shawn Holland
Twitter
In simple cases, presenting one obvious right way versus one obvious wrong way, it is often wiser to choose the wrong way so as to expedite subsequent revision.
Fyfe's First Law of Revision – Corollary I
Murphy’s Laws
Obvious way
Revisions
Wrong way
Things always fall at right angles.
Sprinkle's Law
Accidents
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Things
The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants.
Walinsky's Law
Communication
Conversation
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
People
Speech
Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well-being.
Albrecht's Law I
Murphy’s Laws
Social innovations
At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle, always arrive last.
Law of the Theater & Arena
Murphy’s Laws
Situations
Time
Seats
Get re-elected.
First Law of Office Holders
Elections/Voting
Government
Murphy’s Laws
Science is Truth. Don't be misled by fact.
Finagle's Creed
Beliefs
Facts
Honesty
Murphy’s Laws
Science/Weather
Truth
On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.
Anonymous Murphy's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Charts
Organizations
Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.
Law of Lawmaking
Government
Law
Murphy’s Laws
Committees
You can make a killing in the theatre, but not a living.
Another Anderson's Law
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Theater
Exceptions prove the rule… and wreck the budget.
Anonymous Murphy's Law
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Budgets
Exceptions
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish yourself as an expert.
Ryan's Law
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
Situations
Expert
Guessing
20% of the customers account for 80% of the turnover, 20% of the components account for 80% of the cost, and so forth.
Pareto's Law (The 20/80 Law)
Murphy’s Laws
Business
Customers
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells
(1966 – ) American magazine editor
Government
Murphy’s Laws
Action
Program
The more carefully you plan a project, the more confusion there is when something goes wrong.
Fourth Workshop Principle
Murphy’s Laws
Confusion
Planning
When in doubt, empty the magazine.
A Murphy's Military Law
Arms
Military
Murphy’s Laws
Ammunition
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