Author: Anonymous Murphy's Law

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exceptions prove the rule… and wreck the budget.

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

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

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

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

Never step in anything soft.

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 Law never fails except when you try to demonstrate it.

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

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

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

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

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