Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 31)

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

An expert really doesn't know anymore than you do. He is merely better organized and has slides.

Murphy’s Laws People

It works better if you plug it in.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws Time

If anything can go wrong it will go wrong when Mr. Murphy is out of town.

Murphy’s Laws

The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front of your eyes.

Autos Driving Murphy’s Laws Things

Love letters, business contracts and money due you always arrive three weeks late, whereas junk mail arrives the day it was sent.

Murphy’s Laws Time

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Twitter makes you like people you don’t know, and Facebook makes you hate people you do

Communication Murphy’s Laws

Bad weather reports are more often right than good ones.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

Some people fish in the Sea of Life without bait.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Stupidity

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

(1888 – 1965) British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet
Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

It’s the wrong size.

Murphy’s Laws

Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you.

Characteristics Military Murphy’s Laws

If you are short of everything except enemy, you are in combat.

Conflict Military Murphy’s Laws War

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, any experimental organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Murphy’s Laws

Everything takes longer than you think.

Murphy’s Laws Time

The less you say, the less you have to take back.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

A writer mustn’t shift your point of view.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Smart bombs have bad days too.

Arms Military Murphy’s Laws

The program you've been looking forward to all week will be preempted.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws Television