Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 37)

‘Push’ is the force exerted upon the door marked PULL.

If the enemy is in range, so are you!

Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other.

Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.

1. If you like it, they don't have it in your size. 2. If you like it and its in your size, it doesn't fit anyway. 3. If you like it and it fits, you can't afford it. 4. If you like it, it fits, and you can afford it, it falls apart the first time you wash it.

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

Never program and drink beer at the same time.

The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

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

If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.

A clever remark is one you don’t make at the appropriate moment but compose immediately after.

No matter how many times you've had it, if it's offered, take it, because it'll never be quite the same again.

A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.

Never make a decision that you can get someone else to make.

Good times end too quickly. Bad times go on forever.

An easily understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex, incomprehensible truth.

In a family recipe that you discovered in an old book, the most vital measurement will be illegible.

Evil and stupidity are randomly distributed.

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