Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 2)

Everything goes wrong all at once.

There are only two problems with people: One is that they don't think; The other is that they do.

The less we know about a disease, the more medicines are available to treat it.

The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.

The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.

A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.

Any attempt to print Murphy's laws will jam the printer.

An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

You know you have it when you can’t think of anything that’s your own fault.

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

Performance is directly affected by the perversity of inanimate objects.

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

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong – but that’s the way to bet.

The person who buys the most raffle tickets has the least chance of winning.

Everything will go wrong at one time.

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

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.

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

If it says “one size fits all,” it doesn’t fit anyone.

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little while longer.

Suppressive fires – won’t.