Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 45)

The one you want is never the one on sale.

Things are never as bad as they turn out to be.

The theory is supported as long as the funds are.

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

(1888 – 1965) British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet

No experiment is ever a complete failure – it can always serve as a negative example.

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

If you need four screws for the job, the first three are easy to find.

The most expensive component is the one that breaks.

The less you say, the less you have to take back.

The chance of the bread falling with the butter side down is directly proportional to the value of the carpet.

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.

The crucial memorandum will be snared in the out-basket by the paper clip of the overlying correspondence and go to file.

Don’t force it; get a larger hammer.

Them what gets – has.

Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.

To protect your position, fire the fastest rising employees first.

The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.

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

Everything tastes more or less like chicken.

It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple.