Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 87)

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1. If you must make a decision, delay it.
2. If you can authorize someone else to avoid a decision, do so.
3. If you can form a committee, have them avoid the decision.
4. If you can otherwise avoid a decision, avoid it immediately.

Murphy’s Laws

The first place to look for anything is the last place you would expect to find it.

Murphy’s Laws Places Things

Love letters, business contracts and money due you always arrive three weeks late, whereas junk mail arrives the day it was sent.

Murphy’s Laws Time

For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong.

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Murphy’s Laws Problems

A hand in the bush is worth two anywhere else.

Murphy’s Laws

The stomach expands to accommodate the amount of junk food available.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

When you are over the hill, you pick up speed.

Age Murphy’s Laws Old

Decisions are justified by the benefits to the organization, but they are made by considering the benefits to the decision-makers.

Murphy’s Laws

The probability of arriving at the job site without a needed tool or with the wrong hardware are directly proportional with the square of the travel distance.
Corollary: You will always have what you need when the job is next to your shop.

Murphy’s Laws Things Work

No matter what goes wrong, there is always somebody who knew it would.

Murphy’s Laws People Problems

The local density of mosquitos is inversely proportional to your remaining repellent.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

Anything labeled "NEW" and/or "IMPROVED" isn't.

Murphy’s Laws Shopping Things

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

Computers Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

You can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person – they will find an easier way to do it.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Work

The easier it is to do the harder it is to change.

Murphy’s Laws

The most interesting paper will be scheduled simultaneously with the second most interesting paper.

Murphy’s Laws

The specialist learns more and more about less and less until, finally, he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist learns less and less about more and more until, finally, he knows nothing about everything.

Education Learning Murphy’s Laws

Hot glass looks the same as cold glass.

Murphy’s Laws

If only one price can be obtained for any quotation, the price will be unreasonable.

Money Murphy’s Laws

The only time to be positive is when you are positive you are wrong.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws