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At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.

Brien's First Law

Murphy’s Laws Success Organizations

When things go wrong, don’t go with them.

Murphy’s Comment

Murphy’s Laws

If you pick up a chunk of broken concrete and try to pitch it into an adjacent lot, it will hit a tree limb and come down right on the driver’s side of your car windshield.

Anonymous Murphy’s Law

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Those who are unable to learn from past meetings are condemned to repeat them.

McKernan's Maxim

Murphy’s Laws Meetings

The price of any product produced for a government agency will be not less than the square of the initial Firm Fixed-Price Contract.

Connolly's Law of Cost Control

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There's no time like the present for postponing what you don't want to do.

Hecht’s Fourth Law

Murphy’s Laws Procrastination

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

Murphy’s Laws People Work Benchley's Law

The first pull on the cord ALWAYS sends the drapes in the wrong direction.

Boyle's Other Law

Murphy’s Laws Things Drapes

Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness.

Air Force Inertia Axiom

Murphy’s Laws Consistency

Some do; some don’t.

Dibble’s First Law of Sociology

Murphy’s Laws People (Geoffrey Chamberlain)

No matter what goes wrong, there is always somebody who knew it would.

Evans's and Bjorn's Law

Murphy’s Laws People Problems

Any significant military action will occur at the junction of two or more map sheets.

Slim’s Law

Military Murphy’s Laws Field Marshal Viscount Slim Maps

It works better if you plug it in.

Sattinger's Law

Murphy’s Laws Electricity

The lead in a pencil will break in direct proportion to the importance of the notes being taken.

First Law of Business Meetings

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The sloppier the rebel uniform, the more likely the overthrow of the existing government.

Revolutionary Law

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Never let your studies interfere with your education.

Rodney's Rule

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Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

Laws of Computer Programming IX

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

Expenditure rises to meet income.

Parkinson's Second Law

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Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.

Putt's Law

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Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 33)

It is always the partner’s fault.

At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.

When things go wrong, don’t go with them.

If you pick up a chunk of broken concrete and try to pitch it into an adjacent lot, it will hit a tree limb and come down right on the driver’s side of your car windshield.

Those who are unable to learn from past meetings are condemned to repeat them.

The price of any product produced for a government agency will be not less than the square of the initial Firm Fixed-Price Contract.

There's no time like the present for postponing what you don't want to do.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

The first pull on the cord ALWAYS sends the drapes in the wrong direction.

Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness.

Some do; some don’t.

No matter what goes wrong, there is always somebody who knew it would.

Any significant military action will occur at the junction of two or more map sheets.

It works better if you plug it in.

The lead in a pencil will break in direct proportion to the importance of the notes being taken.

The sloppier the rebel uniform, the more likely the overthrow of the existing government.

Never let your studies interfere with your education.

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.