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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.

Tillis's Organizational Principle

Murphy’s Laws Files Organization

It works better if you plug it in.

Sattinger's Law

Murphy’s Laws Electricity

Caveats are always* forgotten.
*Caveat: except in rare instances.

Battleson’s Blathrskite

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1. An object in motion will be heading in the wrong direction.
2. An object at rest will be in the wrong place.

Gerrold’s Laws of Infernal Dynamics

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Things Directions Motion

If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right.

Leahy's Law

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Wrong

If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again.

Denniston’s Corollary

Murphy’s Laws People

The specialist learns more and more about less and less until, finally, he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist learns less and less about more and more until, finally, he knows nothing about everything.

Donsen's Law

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If you buy bananas or avocados before they are ripe, there won't be any left by the time they are ripe. If you buy them ripe, they rot before they are eaten.

Banana Principle

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The one piece that the plant forgot to ship is the one that supports 75% of the balance of the shipment.

Law of Applied Confusion

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If you don't write to complain, you'll never receive your order. If you do write, you'll receive the merchandise before your angry letter reaches its destination.

Savignano's Mail-Order Law

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Design flaws travel in groups.

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Murphy’s Laws Design flaws

The less you do, the less can go wrong.

Law of Retroaction

Murphy’s Laws Problems

One man's red tape is another man's system.

Waldo's Observation

Murphy’s Laws Red Tape

An unbreakable toy is good for breaking other toys.

Jason's Law

Murphy’s Laws Things Toys

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

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Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 3)

Name on building: upper class. Name on desk: middle class. Name on shirt: working class

There are those who don't even like to be rubbed the right way.

About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can get done sometime next week.

All generalizations are false.

The easy way is always mined.

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.

It works better if you plug it in.

Caveats are always* forgotten.
*Caveat: except in rare instances.

1. An object in motion will be heading in the wrong direction.
2. An object at rest will be in the wrong place.

If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right.

If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again.

The specialist learns more and more about less and less until, finally, he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist learns less and less about more and more until, finally, he knows nothing about everything.

If you buy bananas or avocados before they are ripe, there won't be any left by the time they are ripe. If you buy them ripe, they rot before they are eaten.

The one piece that the plant forgot to ship is the one that supports 75% of the balance of the shipment.

If you don't write to complain, you'll never receive your order. If you do write, you'll receive the merchandise before your angry letter reaches its destination.

Design flaws travel in groups.

The less you do, the less can go wrong.

One man's red tape is another man's system.

An unbreakable toy is good for breaking other toys.

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