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Murphy’s Laws
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Spend sufficient time confirming the need and the need will disappear.
Ed's Fifth Rule of Procrastination
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Confirmation
Needs
Kickbacks must always exceed bribes.
The Hidden Truth of Management
Murphy’s Laws
Bribes
Management
Automatic weapons – aren’t.
A Murphy's Military Law
Arms
Military
Murphy’s Laws
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
Darrow's Observation
History
Murphy’s Laws
Time
When you are served a meal aboard an aircraft, the aircraft will encounter turbulence.
Gunter's First Law of Air Travel
Activities
Eating
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Travel
Airplanes
Turbulence
To err is human – to blame it on someone else is even more human.
Jacob's Law
Mistakes
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Blame
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.
Joseph Heller
(1923 – 1999) American satirical novelist, short story writer & playwright
Murphy’s Laws
From ‘Catch-22’
Sanity
You never want the one you can afford.
Baker's Law of Economics
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Make it sufficiently difficult for people to do something, and most people will stop doing it.
No. 3 Pencil Principle
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Don't use a run-on sentence you got to punctuate it.
The 19 Rules for Good Riting - 10
Communication
Language
Murphy’s Laws
Reading/Writing
Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
Horngren's Observation
Murphy’s Laws
Economists
It’s better to be tried by twelve men than to be carried by six.
The Cop’s Law
Conflict
Crime
Death
Government
Law
Murphy’s Laws
Natalie Chapman)
Changing things is central to leadership, and changing them before anyone else is creativeness.
Jay’s First Law of Leadership
Murphy’s Laws
Change
Leadership
1. Everything is cold except what should be. 2. Everything, including the corn flakes, is greasy.
Laws of Institutional Food
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Institutions
If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.
Abbott's Second Admonition
Murphy’s Laws
Questions
Twitter makes you like people you don’t know, and Facebook makes you hate people you do
Shawn’s Observation
Shawn Holland
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Facebook
Shawn Holland
Twitter
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
The Peter Principle
Murphy’s Laws
Incompetence
Any significant military action will occur at the junction of two or more map sheets.
Slim’s Law
Military
Murphy’s Laws
Field Marshal Viscount Slim
Maps
If the converse of a statement is absurd, the original statement is an insult to the intelligence and should never have been said.
Boultbee's Criterion
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
Speech
Statements
For every vision there is an equal and opposite revision.
Thal's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Goals
Revisions
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.
Repairman's Laws
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Work
Distance
Tools
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