Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 48)

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1. The information you have is not what you want. 2. The information you want is not what you need. 3. The information you need is not what you can obtain. 4. The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay.

Beliefs Facts Murphy’s Laws

The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

Murphy’s Laws People Work

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

Money Murphy’s Laws

The item you had your eye on the minute you walked in will be taken by the person in front of you.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

A good place to start from is where you are.

Murphy’s Laws

An inexorable upward movement leads administrators to higher salaries and narrower spans of control.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen, especially when people are looking.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

The weight of your pack increases in direct proportion to the amount of food you consume from it; if you run out of food, the pack weight goes on increasing anyway.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

Flying pests are more likely to enter the ears, eyes, nose and throat when both hands are in use.

Animals Murphy’s Laws Problems

At any particular time, there are more horse's asses in the world than horses.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws People

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

Murphy’s Laws Things Time

You will never find any more loose change than you have already lost.

Money Murphy’s Laws

The program you've been looking forward to all week will be preempted.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws Television

Whenever a system becomes completely defined, someone discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.

Murphy’s Laws

Never trust a private with a loaded weapon, or an officer with a map and compass.

Military Murphy’s Laws

To beat the bureaucracy, make your problem their problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions.

Military Murphy’s Laws War

No matter how many beautifully crafted, near-to-perfection baked goods you crank out on a regular basis, the moment one such item becomes required in some official capacity, it will flop.

Cooking Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Things always go from bad to worse.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations