Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 11)

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When taking something apart to fix a minor malfunction, you will cause a major malfunction.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The Cavalry doesn’t always come to the rescue.

Military Murphy’s Laws

Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.

Murphy’s Laws Places Things

A valuable dropped item will always fall into an inaccessible place (a diamond ring down the drain, for example) – or into the garbage disposal while it is running.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.

Murphy’s Laws People

Last year's was always better.

Murphy’s Laws

Bad weather reports are more often right than good ones.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Failure Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book.

Murphy’s Laws People

There must be one day above all others in each life that is the happiest

Corollary: What if you’ve already had it?

Emotions Happiness Murphy’s Laws Time

New systems generate new problems.

Murphy’s Laws

Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will reject the proposal.

Money Murphy’s Laws

The object or bit of information most needed will be least available.

Murphy’s Laws

Odd objects attract fire… never lurk behind one.

Military Murphy’s Laws

When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

Appearance Murphy’s Laws Success

Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness.

Murphy’s Laws

Anything, no matter how bad, will sound good if played at a very high volume for a short time.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

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

Murphy’s Laws

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved with the broth.

Murphy’s Laws People

Hockey is a game played by six good players and a home team.

Hockey Murphy’s Laws Sports