Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 84)

A road map always tells you everything except how to refold it.

Seven-eighths of everything can't be seen.

Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least.

public relations manager

Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will find a need for them an hour later.

Twitter makes you like people you don’t know, and Facebook makes you hate people you do

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.

Things always fall at right angles.

The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants.

Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well-being.

At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle, always arrive last.

Get re-elected.

Science is Truth. Don't be misled by fact.

On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.

Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

You can make a killing in the theatre, but not a living.

Exceptions prove the rule… and wreck the budget.

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish yourself as an expert.

20% of the customers account for 80% of the turnover, 20% of the components account for 80% of the cost, and so forth.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

(1966 – ) American magazine editor

The more carefully you plan a project, the more confusion there is when something goes wrong.

When in doubt, empty the magazine.