Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 39)

1. When in charge ponder
2. When in trouble delegate
3. When in doubt mumble.

Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen, especially when people are looking.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

If at first you don't succeed, transform your data set.

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

Design flaws travel in groups.

Exceptions always outnumber rules.

Scientists who dislike the restraints of highly organized research like to remark that a truly great research worker needs only three pieces of equipment – a pencil, a piece of paper, and a brain… but they quote this maxim more often at academic banquets than at budget hearings.

It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't.

There is always one more bug.

Batteries die at the most critical time of the most complex problem.

Children should be heard, not obscene.

The more you want it, the quicker the letdown after you get it.

Them what gets – has.

Flying pests are more likely to enter the ears, eyes, nose and throat when both hands are in use.

Bodies in motion tend to remain in motion; bodies at rest tend to remain in bed.

If the enemy is in range, so are you!

When you wear new shoes for the first time, everyone will step on them.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

Only after locking your toolbox/shed at the end of a DIY job do you find another tool to return to your toolbox/shed.