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Murphy’s Laws
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The one you want is never the one on sale.
Finman's Bargain Basement Principle
Activities
Murphy’s Laws
Shopping
Sale
Things are never as bad as they turn out to be.
White’s Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Situations
Richard N. White
The theory is supported as long as the funds are.
Alan's Law of Research
Murphy’s Laws
Research
Theories
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
T.S. Eliot
(1888 – 1965) British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet
Language
Murphy’s Laws
Reading/Writing
Imitation
Poets
No experiment is ever a complete failure – it can always serve as a negative example.
Futility Factor
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Experiments
Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.
Sayre's Third Law of Politics
Education
Government
Murphy’s Laws
Politics
Academic politics
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
Patton's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Plans
Timeliness
If you need four screws for the job, the first three are easy to find.
N-1 Law
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Screws
The most expensive component is the one that breaks.
Law of New Fangled Gadgetry
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Things
The less you say, the less you have to take back.
Henderson's Homily
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Speech
The chance of the bread falling with the butter side down is directly proportional to the value of the carpet.
Jennings' Corollary to the Law of Selective Gravity
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Bread
Butter
Carpet
Value
If on an actuarial basis there is a 50-50 chance that something will go wrong, it will actually go wrong nine times out of ten.
Economists' Law II
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
50-50 chances
Odds
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
Don’t force it; get a larger hammer.
Anthony's Law of Force
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Hammers
Them what gets – has.
Wakefield's Refutation of the Iron Law of Distribution
Murphy’s Laws
People
Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.
Parkinson's Third Law
Murphy’s Laws
Complexity
Expansion
To protect your position, fire the fastest rising employees first.
Third Law of Survival
Murphy’s Laws
People
Situations
Work
Employees
Fire
The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.
Anonymous Murphy's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Situations
Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can get done sometime next week.
Yoakum’s Rule
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Procrastination
Robert Yoakum
Everything tastes more or less like chicken.
Chamberlain's Law
Animals
Eating
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Chicken
Taste
It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple.
Meyers Law
Murphy’s Laws
Simplicity
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