Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 44)

Some mistakes are too fun to make only once.

The one piece that holds the whole thing together will be missing.

The higher up the organization, the fewer people appreciate Murphy's Law.

The length of time it takes a bill to pass through the legislature is in inverse proportion to the number of lobbying groups favoring it.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

However much a shower control may rotate, the degree of rotation required to change from ice-cold to scalding is never more than one millimeter.

(1957 – ) New Zealand writer

Everything happens at the same time with nothing in between.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.

You can always find what you're not looking for.

Seven-eighths of everything can't be seen.

If you buy bananas or avocados before they are ripe, there won't be any left by the time they are ripe. If you buy them ripe, they rot before they are eaten.

If you’re feeling good, don’t worry… you’ll get over it.

If you haven’t struck oil in twenty minutes, quit boring.

The only time to be positive is when you are positive you are wrong.

If you have only one nail, it will bend.

If you can't fix it, feature it.

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

All probabilities are 50%; either a thing will happen or it won't.

The mud that won’t come off on the doormat immediately adheres to the carpet.

A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.