Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 36)

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Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.


Memory Murphy’s Laws People Problems Situations

A theory is better than an explanation.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

1. The more general the title of a course, the less you will learn from it. 2. The more specific a title is, the less you will be able to apply it.

Education Murphy’s Laws School

Anyone having supervisory responsibility for the completion of a task will invariably protest that more resources are needed.

Murphy’s Laws Work

1. No action is without side-effects. 2. Nothing ever goes away. 3. There is no free lunch.

Murphy’s Laws

First Things First, but not necessarily in that order.

Murphy’s Laws Time

No matter which book you need, it's on the bottom shelf.

Books Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

It never heals correctly.

Health Murphy’s Laws

Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within the organization.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

There are coexisting elements in frustration phenomena which separate expected results from achieved results.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

1. Giving away baby clothes and furniture is a major cause of pregnancy. 2. Always be backlit. 3. Sit down whenever possible.

Appearance Murphy’s Laws Situations

Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws People Stupidity Wisdom

The more carefully you plan a project, the more confusion there is when something goes wrong.

Murphy’s Laws

The fewer functions any device is required to perform, the more perfectly it can perform those functions.

Murphy’s Laws Things

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

When you're not in a hurry, the traffic light will turn green as soon as your vehicle comes to a complete stop.

Autos Murphy’s Laws

A good review is considered nepotism; a bad one professional jealousy.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Opinion

The time of departure will be delayed by the square of the number of people involved.

Murphy’s Laws People Time

An intelligent person can make a dumber statement than an idiot. The idiot is limited to his imbecility.

Communication Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Speech

To err is human, so do not use up the eraser before the pencil.

Murphy’s Laws