Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 37)

The distance to the gate from which your flight departs is inversely proportional to the time remaining before the scheduled departure of the flight.

Your pocket radio won't pick up the station you want to hear most.

Anything is easier to take apart than it is to put together.

No matter what stage of completion one reaches, the cost of the remainder of the project remains constant.

1. If you're wondering if you took the meat out to thaw, you didn't. 2. If you're wondering if you left the coffee pot plugged in, you did.

The client who pays you the least complains the most.

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

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

The sun always shines between the visors.

If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist

Teamwork is essential… it allows you to blame someone else.

All rush jobs are due the same day.

How to locate the slow-moving traffic lane or check-out land: Get in it.

Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.

Whenever a superstar is traded to your favorite team, he fades. Whenever your team trades away a useless no-name, he immediately rises to stardom.

80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn't read.

Exceptions prove the rule, and destroy the battle plan.

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

It is impossible to distinguish, from a distance, whether the bureaucrats associated with your project are simply sitting on their hands, or frantically trying to cover their asses.

The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.