Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 30)

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One important fact about Murphy's Law was that it was not actually coined by Murphy, but by another man of the same name.

Murphy’s Laws

Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.

Government Money Murphy’s Laws

A consultant is someone who, when hired to find out what time it is, borrows your watch to find out.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.

Conflict Murphy’s Laws

Anything asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Beliefs Facts Murphy’s Laws

Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.

Murphy’s Laws Places Things

When all else fails, follow instructions.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so they always point upwards from the floor… especially in the dark.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Situations Things

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

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

In approaching a double door, you will always go to the one door that is locked, pull when you should have pushed, and push when the sign says pull.

Murphy’s Laws Things

You never catch on until after the test.

Education Murphy’s Laws School Understanding

Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Time

No matter how strong the breeze when you leave the dock, once you have reached the furthest point from port the wind will die.

Murphy’s Laws Sports

Tolerances will accumulate unidirectionally toward maximum difficulty of assembly.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want.

Murphy’s Laws Success

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

Education Government Murphy’s Laws Politics

When the enemy is closing, the artillery will always be long

Military Murphy’s Laws

Some of it, plus the rest of it, is all of it.

Murphy’s Laws

The experiment may be considered a success if no more than 50% of the observed measurements must be discarded to obtain a correspondence with theory.

Murphy’s Laws

Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other.

Murphy’s Laws

Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.

Computers Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Things