Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 47)

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The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)
Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

The more qualified candidates who are available, the more likely the compromise will be on the candidate whose main qualification is a non-threatening incompetence.

Elections/Voting Government Murphy’s Laws

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom.

Mothers Murphy’s Laws People

An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.

Murphy’s Laws

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretence of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

Murphy’s Laws

If you allow someone to get in front of you, you both will have the same destination, and the other car will get the last parking space.

Driving Murphy’s Laws

The simple explanation always follows the complex solution.

Murphy’s Laws

It ain't necessarily so.

Murphy’s Laws

There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.

Murphy’s Laws People

No matter how clear the skies are, a thunderstorm will move in 5 minutes after the papers are delivered.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Murphy’s Laws

The chances of anybody doing anything are inversely proportional to the number of other people who are in a position to do it instead.

Murphy’s Laws

If you make something idiot-proof, the world will create a better idiot.

Fools Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Stupidity

When the water reaches the upper deck, follow the rats.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

If someone says, "I'm expensive" – believe them.

Money Murphy’s Laws

When the issue is trivial, and everyone understands it, debate is almost interminable.

Murphy’s Laws Time

The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle.

(1910 – 1999) American U.S. Air Force officer & flight surgeon
Murphy’s Laws Success

If you explain it so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

The illness you come down with is the one ailment your company-covered insurance does not cover.

Health Murphy’s Laws

When you move something to a more logical place, you only can remember where it used to be and your decision to move it.

Murphy’s Laws