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We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughn
(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor
Characteristics
Education
Learning
Problems
Time
Day
Wrong
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.
Alinsky's Rule for Radicals
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
You can always tell you're in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.
Hugh Elliott
blogger (Standing Room Only)
Problems
Situations
Options
Prosthetics
Trouble
A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
Will Rogers
(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator
People
Problems
Admission
Conference
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man’s failures.
Earl Warren
(1891 – 1974) 14th U.S. Chief Justice & politician
Failure
Problems
Sports
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
Red Skelton
(1913 – 1997) American comedian & radio & television host
Marriage
Men
Mistakes
Problems
The greater the funding, the longer it takes to make the mistake.
Corollary to Young's Law
Mistakes
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Time
Funding
Gravity is a contributing factor in 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
Dave Barry
(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Accidents
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Gravity
Like most of those who study history, he [Napoleon III] learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A.J.P. Taylor
(1906 – 1990) British historian
Mistakes
Problems
Napoleon
I have not failed… I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Alva Edison
(1847 – 1931) American inventor, scientist & businessman
Failure
Problems
It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.
Gore Vidal
(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter
Failure
Success
I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
Dave Edison
actor, writer & editor
Accidents
Problems
War
Helmets
Kamikaze pilots
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Money
Problems
Fortunes
Patience
When the product is destined to fail, the delivery system will perform perfectly.
Boyle's Laws - 2
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Things
Products
If all else fails, try the obvious.
Proverb
Problems
Proverbs
Situations
Obvious
A paint drip will always find the hole in the newspaper and land on the carpet underneath (and will not be discovered until it has dried).
Anonymous Murphy’s Law
Accidents
Murphy’s Laws
Painting
When taking something apart to fix a minor malfunction, you will cause a major malfunction.
Murphy's Second Law of Construction
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Repairs
Nothing is easy.
Wright’s Constant
Life
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Jonathan Wright
It will always break just when you need it the most.
Anonymous Murphy’s Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Experiments should be reproducible… they should all fail in the same way.
Law of Continuity
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Experiments
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
Eddie Cantor
(1892 – 1964) singer, dancer, comedian, actor & songwriter
Marriage
Problems
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