Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 12)

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Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.

Murphy’s Laws Time

A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

Alcohol Ideas Murphy’s Laws

No matter what stage of completion one reaches, the cost of the remainder of the project remains constant.

Murphy’s Laws

Any bureaucracy reorganized to enhance efficiency is immediately indistinguishable from its predecessor.

Murphy’s Laws

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Murphy’s Laws

Any new activity will cause more trouble than you can possibly imagine.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

Experiments should be reproducible… they should all fail in the same way.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

Any child who chatters nonstop at home will adamantly refuse to utter a word when requested to demonstrate for an audience.

Children Communication Family Murphy’s Laws Old Speech

Design flaws travel in groups.

Murphy’s Laws

The most expensive component is the one that breaks.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Digestion is the great secret of life.

Life Murphy’s Laws

Super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Problems

There is no such thing as a ‘little bit of garlic.’

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Murphy’s Laws Time

A body at rest tends to watch television.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws Television

To err is human; to really foul things up takes a computer.

Computers Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue.

Murphy’s Laws

In your toughest final – for the first time all year – the most distractingly attractive student in the class will sit next to you.

Education Murphy’s Laws School

You should have seen it when I got it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

No matter what stage of completion one reaches in a North Sea (oil) field, the cost of the remainder of the project remains the same.

Money Murphy’s Laws

The only thing worse than a husband who never notices what you cook or what you wear is a husband who always notices what you cook and what you wear.

Appearance Cooking Food/Drink Husbands Marriage Murphy’s Laws