Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 46)

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

Murphy’s Laws Time

When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to have recourse to any other.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Stupidity

Good salesmen and good repairmen will never go hungry.

Murphy’s Laws

Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.

Murphy’s Laws People Science/Weather

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

The speed of an oncoming vehicle is directly proportional to the length of the passing zone.

Activities Driving Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which speciified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind; Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly.

(1923 – 1999) American satirical novelist, short story writer & playwright
Murphy’s Laws

A dropped power tool will always land on the concrete instead of the soft ground (if outdoors) or the carpet (if indoors) – unless it is running, in which case it will fall on something it can damage (like your foot).

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Things

Short-term success with voters on any side of a given issue can be guaranteed by creating a long-term special study commission made up of at least three divergent interest groups.

Elections/Voting Government Murphy’s Laws Politicians

For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Murphy’s Laws Problems

No matter what stage of completion one reaches in a North Sea (oil) field, the cost of the remainder of the project remains the same.

Money Murphy’s Laws

No matter what goes wrong, there’s always someone who will say he knew it would.

Murphy’s Laws People Problems

In a bureaucracy, good ideas go to too far.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Never let your studies interfere with your education.

Education Learning Murphy’s Laws School

In approaching a double door, you will always go to the one door that is locked, pull when you should have pushed, and push when the sign says pull.

Murphy’s Laws Things

The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs.

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Murphy’s Laws Problems

1. Anyone can make a decision given enough facts. 2. A good manager can make a decision without enough facts. 3. A perfect manager can operate in perfect ignorance.

Facts Murphy’s Laws

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility, and vice versa.

Murphy’s Laws

The job that pays the most will be offered when there is no time to deliver the services.

Murphy’s Laws Work

Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Time