Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 42)

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If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know.

Murphy’s Laws

By definition, when you are investigating the unknown, you do not know what you will find.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

A consultant may be defined as an unemployed practitioner.

Murphy’s Laws

You never run out of things that can go wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The first requisite of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Things

Historical fancy is more persistent than historical fact.

History Murphy’s Laws

Anything that happens enough times to irritate you will happen at least once more.

Murphy’s Laws

If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you may have misjudged the situation.

Military Murphy’s Laws

1. You can get “anywhere” in ten minutes if you go fast enough.
2. Speed bumps are of negligible effect when the vehicle exceeds triple the desired restraining speed.
3. The vehicle in front of you is traveling slower than you are.
4. This lane ends in 500 feet.

Activities Autos Driving Murphy’s Laws Travel

A good review is considered nepotism; a bad one professional jealousy.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Opinion

If it can break, it will, but only after the warranty expires.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Things

[When parachuting] it is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Travel

Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from poor judgment.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

The public is always wrong.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws People

If you have to travel on a Titanic, why not go first-class?

Murphy’s Laws

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Time

You will need three umbrellas: one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

Intelligence Memory Murphy’s Laws

Nature abhors people.

Murphy’s Laws People

People become progressively less competent for jobs they once were well equipped to handle.

Murphy’s Laws People Work

The only things that start on time are those that you're late for.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Time