Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 10)

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Once you overcome your fear of public speaking, you’ll never be asked to speak again.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

Envelopes and stamps which don't stick when you lick them will stick to other things when you don't want them to.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle.

Murphy’s Laws

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Murphy’s Laws Time

The army with the smartest dress uniform will lose.

Conflict Military Murphy’s Laws

Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.

Murphy’s Laws

How to locate the slow-moving traffic lane or check-out land: Get in it.

Murphy’s Laws

A meeting lasts at least 1 1/2 hours, however short the agenda.

Murphy’s Laws Time

The best way to publicize a governmental or political action is to attempt to hide it.

Government Murphy’s Laws

Verbs has to agree with their subject.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

The effectiveness of a politician varies in inverse proportion to his commitment to principle.

Government Murphy’s Laws Politicians

History does not repeat itself; historians simply repeat each other.

History Murphy’s Laws Time

When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money and the person with the money will get some experience.

Money Murphy’s Laws

If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Success

Children have more energy after a hard day of play than they do after a good night's sleep.

Children Murphy’s Laws Situations Sleep

A prerequisite for a desired course will be offered only during the following semester.

Education Murphy’s Laws School

The chances of solving a problem decline the closer one gets to finding out who was the cause of the problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Murphy’s Laws

Everything will go wrong at one time.

Corollary: That time is always when you least expect it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

In a social situation, the most difficult thing to do is usually the right thing to do.

Murphy’s Laws

Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well-being.

Murphy’s Laws