Author: Anonymous Murphy's Law

No name, no matter how simple, can be correctly understood over the phone.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Things

When there are sufficient funds in the checking account, checks take two weeks to clear; when there are insufficient funds, checks clear overnight.

Money Murphy’s Laws Time

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

Murphy’s Laws

When a broken appliance is demonstrated to the repairman, it will work perfectly.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day’s work.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Work

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

Computers Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Things

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Murphy’s Laws

A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.

Failure Murphy’s Laws

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, and that is sufficient.

Murphy’s Laws People Time

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

Murphy’s Laws

The more cordial the buyer’s secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.

Murphy’s Laws

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Murphy’s Law never fails except when you try to demonstrate it.

Murphy’s Laws

If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number.

Murphy’s Laws

Never step in anything soft.

Murphy’s Laws

The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Exceptions prove the rule… and wreck the budget.

Money Murphy’s Laws

The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

Money Murphy’s Laws People Time