Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 31)

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Beauty times brains equals a constant.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Cut to fit – beat into place.

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Things always go from bad to worse.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

The incidence of anything worthwhile is either 15-25 percent or 80-90 percent.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Things that must be together to work usually can't be shipped together; things which must be shipped together as a set, aren't.

Murphy’s Laws

Truck deliveries that normally take one day will take five when you are waiting for the truck.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

It's better to retire too soon than too late.

Murphy’s Laws Time

It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple.

Murphy’s Laws

Last year's was always better.

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What this world needs is a damned good plague.

Health Murphy’s Laws Places World

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

Everything takes longer than you think.

Murphy’s Laws Time

In any human endeavour, once you have exhausted all possibilities and fail, there will be one solution, simple and obvious, highly visible to everyone else.

Murphy’s Laws

Anybody can win – unless there happens to be a second entry.

Murphy’s Laws

Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average drivers.

Beliefs Driving Murphy’s Laws Opinion People

When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech Time

Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of 2 to 4 the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Places

Leftover nuts never match leftover bolts.

Murphy’s Laws

Anyone who says he isn't going to resign, four times… definitely will.

Murphy’s Laws