Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 44)

There's nothing to scratch but the surface.

Don't ever eat yellow snow.

Recoilless rifles – aren’t.

Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.

Don't let go of something until you have a hold of something else.

The length of any meeting is inversely proportional to the length of the agenda for that meeting.

A parade should have bands OR horses, not both.

You cannot force Murphy's Law to happen and you can't use it in reverse.

1. Never draw what you can copy.
2. Never copy what you can trace.
3. Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.

Computing power increases as the square of the cost; if you want to do it twice as cheaply, you have to do it four times slower.

The more innocuous the modification appears to be, the further its influence will extend and the more the design will have to be redrawn.

Any new activity will cause more trouble than you can possibly imagine.

The real objective of a committee is not to reach a decision, but to avoid it.

Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all.

Of two possible events, only the undesired one will occur.

Foundation of a party signals the dissolution of the movement.

Those who are unable to learn from past meetings are condemned to repeat them.

Any theory can be made to fit any facts by means of appropriate additional assumptions.

The outdoor lights that tested perfectly indoors develop burn-outs as soon as they are strung on the house.

In any slide presentation, at least one slide will be upside down or backwards, or both.

If you don't need it and don't want it you can have tons of it.