Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 2)

Spend sufficient time confirming the need and the need will disappear.

Kickbacks must always exceed bribes.

Automatic weapons – aren’t.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

When you are served a meal aboard an aircraft, the aircraft will encounter turbulence.

To err is human – to blame it on someone else is even more human.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which speciified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind; Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly.

(1923 – 1999) American satirical novelist, short story writer & playwright

You never want the one you can afford.

Make it sufficiently difficult for people to do something, and most people will stop doing it.

Don't use a run-on sentence you got to punctuate it.

Among economists, the real world is often a special case.

It’s better to be tried by twelve men than to be carried by six.

Changing things is central to leadership, and changing them before anyone else is creativeness.

1. Everything is cold except what should be. 2. Everything, including the corn flakes, is greasy.

If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

Twitter makes you like people you don’t know, and Facebook makes you hate people you do

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Any significant military action will occur at the junction of two or more map sheets.

If the converse of a statement is absurd, the original statement is an insult to the intelligence and should never have been said.

For every vision there is an equal and opposite revision.

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.