Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 48)

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

If you understand it, it's obsolete.

Time moves slower in a fast moving vehicle.

Any decision is better than no decision.

Any new activity will cause more trouble than you can possibly imagine.

Most people deserve each other.

Whenever someone you know, or someone you do business with, moves to a new location, it’s always farther away.

Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

1. No action is without side-effects. 2. Nothing ever goes away. 3. There is no free lunch.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

You can’t get here from there.

Things that must be together to work usually can't be shipped together; things which must be shipped together as a set, aren't.

People to whom you are attracted invariably think you remind them of someone else.

An unwatched pot boils immediately.

Changing things is central to leadership, and changing them before anyone else is creativeness.

Truth varies.

‘Push’ is the force exerted upon the door marked PULL.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

Whatever creates the greatest inconvenience for the largest number must happen.

Just sometimes, every damn thing goes right.

If the converse of a statement is absurd, the original statement is an insult to the intelligence and should never have been said.