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Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Murphy’s Laws

It always takes longer to get there than to get back.

Murphy’s Laws Time Travel

Being in politics is like being a football coach: you have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important.

Education Government Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Politics Sports

Nature abhors people.

Murphy’s Laws People

In a three story building served by one elevator, the elevator car will be on a floor where you are not.

Murphy’s Laws

You can never do merely one thing.

Murphy’s Laws

You can get away with anything as long as you tell someone about it.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax.

Murphy’s Laws Taxes Time

It goes in – it must come out.

Murphy’s Laws

Murphy's Law cannot be proven, yet is correct, as when you try to prove Murphy's Law, you will see that the proof is incorrect. This is obviously due to Murphy's Law, therefore Murphy's Law is correct and proven.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Beliefs Facts Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

You climb the ladder of success easier when you lay it flat.

Murphy’s Laws Success

The “Consumer Report” on the item will come out a week after you’ve made your purchase.
Corollaries: 1. The one you bought will be rated “unacceptable.”. 2. The one you almost bought will be rated “best buy.”

Murphy’s Laws Shopping

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The number of different hypotheses erected to explain a given biological phenomenon is inversely proportional to the available knowledge.

Murphy’s Laws

The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Murphy’s Laws Time Work

There’s an unseen force which lets birds know when you’ve just washed your car.

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter
Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

Gravity is a contributing factor in 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

The only things that start on time are those that you're late for.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Time

Thinly sliced cabbage.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Wordplay

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don’t let anyone know it.

Murphy’s Laws