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1. Anyone else who can be blamed should be blamed. 2. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong faster with computers. 3. Whenever a computer can be blamed, it should be blamed.

Computers Murphy’s Laws

Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

If you file it, you'll know where it is but never need it. If you don't file it, you'll need it but never know where it is.

Murphy’s Laws

The lights are most likely to come back on at the precise moment you find the flashlight.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author
Murphy’s Laws Things

The cigarette smoke always drifts in the direction of the non-smoker regardless of the direction of the breeze.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Situations

The day of the big heat wave is the day the office air conditioning breaks down.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

1. The tide comes in and the tide goes out, and what have you got?
2. They say an elephant never forgets, but what's he got to remember?

Murphy’s Laws

If you run into an old girlfriend – no matter how innocently – your wife will know about it before you get home.

Husbands Marriage Murphy’s Laws Wives

The easier it is to do the harder it is to change.

Murphy’s Laws

If you play with anything long enough, it will break.

Murphy’s Laws Things Time

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with ONLY a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist
Activities Murphy’s Laws Shopping

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician
Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations Things

The squeaky wheel gets replaced.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.

Activities Games Men Murphy’s Laws

Whatever goes us, stays up.

Government Money Murphy’s Laws Taxes

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Murphy’s Laws Time

If it can be borrowed and it can be broken, you will borrow it and you will break it.

Murphy’s Laws

If you were forced to read the book in high school, you’ll probably hate the movie too.

Books Education Film Murphy’s Laws School

Them what gets – has.

Murphy’s Laws