Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 3)

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

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Success

The man who knows "how" will always have a job. The man who knows "why" will always be his boss.

Murphy’s Laws Work

If something is confidential, it will be left in the copier machine.

Murphy’s Laws

Overdoing things is harmful in all cases, even when it comes to efficiency.

Murphy’s Laws

You never run out of things that can go wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

When dangling, don't use participles.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Evil is live spelled backwards.
Corollary: If it feels good, don't do it.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws

Any system or program, however complicated, if looked at in exactly the right way, will become even more complicated.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Experiments should be reproducible… they should all fail in the same way.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

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.

Education Learning Murphy’s Laws

The most interesting paper will be scheduled simultaneously with the second most interesting paper.

Murphy’s Laws

The damage rarely exceeds the deductible.

Murphy’s Laws

The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it.

Government Murphy’s Laws Time

Brute force, clumsiness, ignorance, and superstition will always triumph over science, skill, knowledge, and logic.

Murphy’s Laws Success

Never expect the unexpected to be predictable.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Communication Murphy’s Laws Things

He who laughs first, laughs last… if nobody laughs in the middle.

Laughter Murphy’s Laws

The problem-solving process will always break down at the point at which it is possible to determine who caused the problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong

Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.

Murphy’s Laws

If you allow someone to get in front of you, you both will have the same destination, and the other car will get the last parking space.

Driving Murphy’s Laws

1. Never be first 2. Never be last 3. Never volunteer for anything.

Murphy’s Laws