Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 40)

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

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Don't ever eat yellow snow.

Murphy’s Laws

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

The man who knows "how" will always have a job. The man who knows "why" will always be his boss.

Murphy’s Laws Work

The progress of science varies inversely with the number of journals published.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing Science/Weather

Some object to the fan dancer, others to the fan.

Murphy’s Laws Opinion

1. The telephone will ring when you are outside the door, fumbling for your keys.
2. You will reach it just in time to hear the click of the caller hanging up.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Things

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can get done sometime next week.

Murphy’s Laws Time

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

Murphy’s Laws Problems

All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.

Murphy’s Laws

The guy you beat out of a prime parking space is the one you have to see for a job interview.

Murphy’s Laws

The more boring and out-of-date the magazines in the waiting room, the longer you will have to wait for your scheduled appointment.

Health Murphy’s Laws

No matter how minor the task, you will inevitably end up covered with grease and motor oil.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

Highways in the worst need of repair naturally have low traffic counts, which results in low priority for repair work.

Autos Murphy’s Laws

The one piece that the plant forgot to ship is the one that supports 75% of the balance of the shipment.

Murphy’s Laws Things

When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly.

Murphy’s Laws

The First Law of Economists: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist.
The Second Law of Economists: They're both wrong.

Murphy’s Laws

There is only one thing worse than dreaming you are at a conference and waking to find that you are at a conference, and that is the conference where you can't fall asleep.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Sleep

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Bus schedules are arranged so your bus will arrive at the transfer point precisely one minute after the connecting bus has left.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Time Travel