Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 22)

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The first requisite of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Things

It's better to retire too soon than too late.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Friendly fire — isn't.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The shortest route has the steepest hills.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, and that is sufficient.

Murphy’s Laws People Time

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

Clothing Government Military Murphy’s Laws

It is impossible to distinguish, from a distance, whether the bureaucrats associated with your project are simply sitting on their hands, or frantically trying to cover their asses.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

The business contact that you have developed at great expense is the first person to be let go in any corporate reorganization.

Murphy’s Laws People

Change is the status quo.

Murphy’s Laws

Nothing is a temporary as that which is called permanent.

Corollary: Nothing is a permanent as that which is called temporary.

Murphy’s Laws

Men and nations will act rationally towards each other only after all other possibilities have been exhausted.

Characteristics Intelligence Murphy’s Laws People

Friendly fire – isn’t.

Military Murphy’s Laws

In every organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on… and this person must be fired.

Murphy’s Laws People Situations

If you did manage to get any good shots, they will be ruined when someone inadvertently opens the darkroom door and all of the dark leaks out.

Murphy’s Laws Places

It isn't that things will necessarily go wrong (Murphy's Law), but rather that they will take so much more time and effort than you think if they are not to go wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Murphy’s Laws

Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from nonpractitioners.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

All women marry beneath them.

Marriage Murphy’s Laws Women

Find out the cost before you get in.

Money Murphy’s Laws

You no sooner get your head above water than someone pulls your flippers off.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Just when you get really good at something you don’t need to do it anymore.

Murphy’s Laws