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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

Weinberg's Second Law

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Builders Civilization Programmers

These pills can't be habit-forming; I've been taking them for years.

Shalit’s Drugstore Observation

Murphy’s Laws Drugs

A prerequisite for a desired course will be offered only during the following semester.

Second Law of Class Scheduling

Education Murphy’s Laws School Classes

Social legislation cannot repeal physical laws.

Oaks's Unruly Laws for Lawmakers III

Government Murphy’s Laws Legislation

The crucial memorandum will be snared in the out-basket by the paper clip of the overlying correspondence and go to file.

Boyle’s Ninth Law

Communication Murphy’s Laws Memorandums

20% of the customers account for 80% of the turnover, 20% of the components account for 80% of the cost, and so forth.

Pareto's Law (The 20/80 Law)

Murphy’s Laws Business Customers

Everyone wants to be noticed but no one wants to be stared at.

Law of Human Quirks

Murphy’s Laws Recognition

The less we know about a disease, the more medicines are available to treat it.

White’s Medical Rule

Health Murphy’s Laws Medicine Robert I. White M.D.

It ain't necessarily so.

Gershwin's Law

Murphy’s Laws

When the enemy is closing, the artillery will always be long

A Murphy's Military Law

Military Murphy’s Laws Artillery

As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.

Buchwald's Law

Money Murphy’s Laws Economy

The more qualified candidates who are available, the more likely the compromise will be on the candidate whose main qualification is a non-threatening incompetence.

Cohen's Law of Competition

Elections/Voting Government Murphy’s Laws Candidates Incompetence

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may diet.

Mim's Message

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Wordplay

The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map.

Murphy's Third Military Law

Military Murphy’s Laws War Combat Danger Officer

If a piece of buttered toast falls, it will land face down.

Payn's Law

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Toast

Whatever you want, you can’t have, what you can have, you don’t want.

Anonymous Murphy’s Law

Murphy’s Laws

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Anonymous

Murphy’s Laws Situations

No job is too small to botch.

Hylton's Rule

Failure Murphy’s Laws

Talent in staff work or sales will recurrently be interpreted as managerial ability.

Boyle’s Fifth Law

Murphy’s Laws Managers

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.

Rapoport's Rule of the Roller-Skate Key

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Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 4)

Overdoing things is harmful in all cases, even when it comes to efficiency.

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

These pills can't be habit-forming; I've been taking them for years.

A prerequisite for a desired course will be offered only during the following semester.

Social legislation cannot repeal physical laws.

The crucial memorandum will be snared in the out-basket by the paper clip of the overlying correspondence and go to file.

20% of the customers account for 80% of the turnover, 20% of the components account for 80% of the cost, and so forth.

Everyone wants to be noticed but no one wants to be stared at.

The less we know about a disease, the more medicines are available to treat it.

It ain't necessarily so.

When the enemy is closing, the artillery will always be long

As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.

The more qualified candidates who are available, the more likely the compromise will be on the candidate whose main qualification is a non-threatening incompetence.

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may diet.

The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map.

If a piece of buttered toast falls, it will land face down.

Whatever you want, you can’t have, what you can have, you don’t want.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

No job is too small to botch.

Talent in staff work or sales will recurrently be interpreted as managerial ability.

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.