Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 32)

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Certain items which are crucial to a given activity will show up with uncommon regularity until the day when that activity is planned, at which point the item in question will disappear from the face of the earth.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Things will get worse before they get better; Who said things would get better?

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws Time

You should have seen it when I got it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Avoid any action with an unacceptable outcome.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible that you haven’t understood the situation.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

There is a tendency for the person in the most powerful position in an organization to spend all his time serving on committees and signing letters.

Murphy’s Laws Time

The number of different hypotheses erected to explain a given biological phenomenon is inversely proportional to the available knowledge.

Murphy’s Laws

1. A rolling stone gathers momentum.
2. Progress is nondirectional.

Murphy’s Laws

A committee is the only life form with 12 stomachs and no brain.

Murphy’s Laws People

Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.

Murphy’s Laws

Leftover nuts never match leftover bolts.

Murphy’s Laws

Just between you and I, case is important.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States.

Appearance Government Hair Murphy’s Laws President

What will get you promoted on one level will get you killed on another.

Murphy’s Laws Work

Established technology tends to persist in spite of new technology.

Murphy’s Laws

Those supplies necessary for yesterday's experiment must be ordered no later than tomorrow noon.

Murphy’s Laws

It's always darkest just before the lights go out.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

1. Anyone else who can be blamed should be blamed.
2. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong faster with computers.
3. Whenever a computer can be blamed, it should be blamed.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

There's nothing to scratch but the surface.

Murphy’s Laws