Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 37)

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Whatever women do, they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws People Women

If a headline ends in a question mark, the answer is “no.”

Headlines Murphy’s Laws

The effort of catching a falling object will cause more destruction than if the object had been allowed to fall in the first place.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Science/Weather Things

The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction.

Military Murphy’s Laws

1. Never be first 2. Never be last 3. Never volunteer for anything.

Murphy’s Laws

The amount of flak received on any subject is inversely proportional to the subject’s true value.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

Things always go from bad to worse.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years.

Computers Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Things Time

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

A writer mustn’t shift your point of view.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?"

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Research is reading two books that have never been read in order to write a third that will never be read.

Books Communication Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Disorder expands proportionately to the tolerance for it.

Murphy’s Laws

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Murphy’s Laws

If everybody wants it, nobody gets it.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.

Murphy’s Laws People

In a restaurant with seats which are close to each other, one will always find the decibel level of the nearest conversation to be inversely proportional to the quality of the thought going into it.

Communication Conversation Murphy’s Laws Speech

Everything will go wrong at one time.

Corollary: That time is always when you least expect it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

There is no such thing as an unattached woman.

Murphy’s Laws People Relationships Women

The remaining distance to your chosen campsite remains constant as twilight approaches.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather