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Murphy’s Laws
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The distance to the gate from which your flight departs is inversely proportional to the time remaining before the scheduled departure of the flight.
Mills's Law of Transportation Logistics
Activities
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Travel
Airplanes
Distance
Your pocket radio won't pick up the station you want to hear most.
Zelman's Rule of Radio Reception
Entertainment
Murphy’s Laws
Radios
Anything is easier to take apart than it is to put together.
Washlevsky's Rule
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Put together
Take apart
No matter what stage of completion one reaches, the cost of the remainder of the project remains constant.
Sixth Law of Project Management
Murphy’s Laws
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.
Working Cook's Laws
Cooking
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
The client who pays you the least complains the most.
Drew's Law of Professional Practice
Murphy’s Laws
Complaints
Twitter makes you like people you don’t know, and Facebook makes you hate people you do.
Shawn’s Observation
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Shawn Holland
Twitter
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
A Murphy's Military Law
Military
Murphy’s Laws
Bravery
The sun always shines
between
the visors.
Backlund’s Automotive Constant
Murphy’s Laws
Peggy-Lynn Backlund
If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.
Murphy’s Law of Lockers
Murphy’s Laws
Locker room
The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.
Ann Landers
(1918 – 2002) advice columnist
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Buy
Find
Lost
Replacement
Teamwork is essential… it allows you to blame someone else.
Finagle's Eighth Rule
Murphy’s Laws
Blame
Teamwork
All rush jobs are due the same day.
Second Law for Freelance Artists
Murphy’s Laws
How to locate the slow-moving traffic lane or check-out land: Get in it.
Sprehe’s Discovery
Autos
Murphy’s Laws
Situations
Things
Christopher Sprehe
Traffic
Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.
Slick's First Law of the Universe
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Science/Weather
Things
Bad check
Speed
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.
Knox's Principle of Star Quality
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Sports
Success
80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn't read.
Third Law of Applied Terror
Education
Murphy’s Laws
School
Exams
Exceptions prove the rule, and destroy the battle plan.
A Murphy's Military Law
Military
Murphy’s Laws
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.
Anonymous Murphy's Law
Murphy’s Laws
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.
Brownian Motion Rule of Bureaucracies
Murphy’s Laws
Situations
Bureaucrats
The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
Parkinson's Fourth Law
Murphy’s Laws
People
Work
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