Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 11)

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Asking dumb questions is easier than correcting dumb mistakes.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws

When you can’t discover the cause of a breakdown, all of the free advice you get will be for things you’ve already checked.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

1. If it should exist, it doesn't.
2. If it does exist, it's out of date.
3. Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.

Murphy’s Laws

Any member introducing a dog into the Society’s premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.

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Animals Cats Dogs Murphy’s Laws

There is always a way… and it usually doesn’t work.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don’t let anyone know it.

Murphy’s Laws

The hidden flaw never remains hidden.

Murphy’s Laws

In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totaled correctly after 4:40 p.m. on Friday.

Murphy’s Laws

The squeaky wheel gets replaced.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Murphy’s Laws

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve; run with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened; keep the company of bums and you will become a bum; hang around with rich people and you will end by picking up the check and dying broke.

Characteristics Money Murphy’s Laws People

The job that pays the most will be offered when there is no time to deliver the services.

Murphy’s Laws Work

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility, and vice versa.

Murphy’s Laws

Those with the best advice offer no advice.

Murphy’s Laws People

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible that you haven’t understood the situation.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

A little ambiguity never hurt anyone.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

Never conduct negotiations before 10:00 a.m. or after 4:00 p.m. Before 10:00 you appear too anxious, and after 4:00 they think you're desperate.

Murphy’s Laws

If it can be borrowed and it can be broken, you will borrow it and you will break it.

Murphy’s Laws

1. Always hire a rich solicitor.

2. Never buy from a rich salesman.

Lawyers Money Murphy’s Laws Wealth

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

Characteristics Conflict Murphy’s Laws

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Murphy’s Laws People Situations