Subject: Murphy’s Laws

Murphy’s Laws:

Various “laws,” axioms, principles and observations that usually convey a cynical view of life and an underlying sense of futility. Most do not prove, or even explain anything, but rather simply state a maxim – usually that things will go wrong.

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In a bureaucracy, good ideas go to too far.

Murphy’s Laws

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

1. If you're wondering if you took the meat out to thaw, you didn't. 2. If you're wondering if you left the coffee pot plugged in, you did.

Cooking Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

There are no answers, only cross references.

Murphy’s Laws

The only way to make up for being lost is to make record time while you are lost.

Activities Autos Driving Murphy’s Laws

If at first you don't succeed, call in an airstrike.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The one piece that the plant forgot to ship is the one that supports 75% of the balance of the shipment.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Things hate people.

Murphy’s Laws People Things

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD.

Murphy’s Laws

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

Murphy’s Laws

[When parachuting] it is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

Military Murphy’s Laws

Officials make work for each other.

Murphy’s Laws People Work

There's no time like the present for postponing what you don't want to do.

Murphy’s Laws

When you arrive at your chosen campsite, it is full.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Communication Education Murphy’s Laws

Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from nonpractitioners.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

1. An object in motion will be heading in the wrong direction.
2. An object at rest will be in the wrong place.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Things

Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

20% of the customers account for 80% of the turnover, 20% of the components account for 80% of the cost, and so forth.

Murphy’s Laws

A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

The information conveyed is less important than the impression.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws