Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 37)

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Men and nations will act rationally towards each other only after all other possibilities have been exhausted.

Characteristics Intelligence Murphy’s Laws People

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

Books Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

When team members are finally in a position to help the team, it turns out they have quit the team.

Murphy’s Laws People

The time it takes to rectify a situation is inversely proportional to the time it took to do the damage.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

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

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

A crisis is when you can't say "let's forget the whole thing."

Murphy’s Laws

Things are never as bad as they turn out to be.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

If you view your problem closely enough, you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Self

Spend sufficient time confirming the need and the need will disappear.

Murphy’s Laws Time

The chances of solving a problem decline the closer one gets to finding out who was the cause of the problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Children Family Murphy’s Laws

If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank. The really big chunks always rise to the top.

Murphy’s Laws

1. If you can get to the faulty part, you won't have the tool to get it off. 2. If you can get the part off, the parts house will have it back ordered. 3. If it's in stock, it didn't need replacing in the first place.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Success

A martyr is a hero who didn't make it.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws

Don't worry… nobody gives a hoot anyway.

Murphy’s Laws People