Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 21)

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The lagging activity in a project will invariably be found in the area where the highest overtime rates lie waiting.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical methods.

Beliefs Facts Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

More dirt comes out of a hole than you can get back into it.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Murphy’s Laws Success Work

It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple.

Murphy’s Laws

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Murphy’s Laws

Merely because the group is in formation does not mean that the group is on the right course.

Appearance Murphy’s Laws

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

Computers Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Truth

In any dealings with a collective body of people, the people will always be more tacky than originally expected.

Murphy’s Laws People

Pocket calculator batteries that have lasted all semester will fail during the math final.

Education Murphy’s Laws School

No name, no matter how simple, can be correctly understood over the phone.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Things

Success can be insured only by devising a defense against failure of the contingency plan.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Success

Any inanimate object, regardless of its position, configuration or purpose, may be expected to perform at any time in a totally unexpected manner for reasons that are either entirely obscure or else completely mysterious.

Murphy’s Laws Things

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Success

The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle.

(1910 – 1999) American U.S. Air Force officer & flight surgeon
Murphy’s Laws Success

All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.

Murphy’s Laws

All generalizations are false.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

A little ignorance can go a long way.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Stupidity

On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.

Murphy’s Laws