Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 85)

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Doing it the hard way is always easier.

Murphy’s Laws

If on an actuarial basis there is a 50-50 chance that something will go wrong, it will actually go wrong nine times out of ten.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

You cannot force Murphy's Law to happen and you can't use it in reverse.

Murphy’s Laws

If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Murphy’s Laws

There is always one more bug.

Computers Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

An easily understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex, incomprehensible truth.

Characteristics Honesty Intelligence Lies Murphy’s Laws Truth

The bus that left the stop just before you got there is your bus.

Murphy’s Laws

Murphy’s Law only fails when you try to demonstrate it.


Failure Murphy’s Laws

To err is human; to really foul things up takes a computer.

Computers Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

Murphy’s Laws Time

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

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Places World

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.

Computers Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Things

You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof.

Fools Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

That which cannot be taken apart will fall apart.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

If you understand it, it's obsolete.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Understanding

In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.

(1942 – ) British travel writer & novelist
Murphy’s Laws Places

All bridge hands are equally likely, but some are more equally likely than others.

Activities Games Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws

1. Incompetence knows no barriers of time or place.
2. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
3. If at first you don't succeed, try something else.

Murphy’s Laws People Work

No boss will keep an employee who is right all the time.

Murphy’s Laws