Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 13)

Never throw away anything unless you know what it came from.

When you are over the hill, you pick up speed.

Any experiment is reproducible until another laboratory tries to repeat it.

You never have the right number of pills left on the last day of a prescription.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

To err is human, so do not use up the eraser before the pencil.

All great discoveries are made by mistake

Corollary: The greater the funding, the longer it takes to make the mistake.

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

An apple every eight hours keeps three doctors away.

When you drop coins, the pennies will fall nearby, while all the others will roll out of sight.

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 If it does exist, it's out of date.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.

Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.

All politics is local.

It's bad luck to be superstititious.

If it’s good, they’ll stop making it.

(1909 – 2001) editorial cartoonist & author

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish yourself as an expert.

The easy way is always mined.

One important fact about Murphy's Law was that it was not actually coined by Murphy, but by another man of the same name.

Anybody can win – unless there happens to be a second entry.

If you volunteer to do a task that nobody likes to do, you'll be expected to do it every time in the future.

Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.