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If you pick up a chunk of broken concrete and try to pitch it into an adjacent lot, it will hit a tree limb and come down right on the driver’s side of your car windshield.

Anonymous Murphy’s Law

Murphy’s Laws Problems

All things being equal, you lose.
Corollary: All things being in your favor, you still lose.

Todd’s Law

Murphy’s Laws (also Alan’s Law) Losing

What you don't know will always hurt you.

First Law of Blissful Ignorance

Murphy’s Laws Knowledge

History does not repeat itself; historians simply repeat each other.

History Murphy’s Laws Time Historians Otto Bettman

The distance to the gate from which your flight departs is inversely proportional to the time remaining before the scheduled departure of the flight.

Mills's Law of Transportation Logistics

Activities Murphy’s Laws Time Travel Airplanes Distance

Chaos always wins, because it’s better organized.

Anonymous Murphy’s Law

Murphy’s Laws Chaos

The cigarette smoke always drifts in the direction of the non-smoker regardless of the direction of the breeze.

Dhawan's Law for the Non-Smoker

Activities Murphy’s Laws Situations Cigarettes Non-smoker Smoke Wind

Look after the molehills and the mountains will look after themselves.

Peter's Law of Substitution

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There are four kinds of people: those who sit quietly and do nothing, those who talk about sitting quietly and doing nothing, those who do things, and those who talk about doing things.

Runamok's Law

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1. All bicycles weigh 50 pounds.
2. 30-pound bicycle needs a 20-pound lock and chain.
3. A 40-pound bicycle needs a 10-pound lock and chain.
4. A 50-pound bicycle needs no lock or chain.

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The higher up the organization, the fewer people appreciate Murphy's Law.

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Murphy’s Laws Organizations

Never conduct negotiations before 10:00 a.m. or after 4:00 p.m. Before 10:00 you appear too anxious, and after 4:00 they think you're desperate.

Eddie's First Law of Business

Murphy’s Laws Negotiations

No job is too small to botch.

Hylton's Rule

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Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 49)

You never know who's right, but you always know who's in charge.

Beware of the physician who is great at getting out of trouble.

He who shouts loudest has the floor.

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.

No man is a hero to his valet.

The first requisite of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces.

The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

Bad regulation begets worse regulation.

If you pick up a chunk of broken concrete and try to pitch it into an adjacent lot, it will hit a tree limb and come down right on the driver’s side of your car windshield.

All things being equal, you lose.
Corollary: All things being in your favor, you still lose.

What you don't know will always hurt you.

History does not repeat itself; historians simply repeat each other.

The distance to the gate from which your flight departs is inversely proportional to the time remaining before the scheduled departure of the flight.

Chaos always wins, because it’s better organized.

The cigarette smoke always drifts in the direction of the non-smoker regardless of the direction of the breeze.

Look after the molehills and the mountains will look after themselves.

There are four kinds of people: those who sit quietly and do nothing, those who talk about sitting quietly and doing nothing, those who do things, and those who talk about doing things.

1. All bicycles weigh 50 pounds.
2. 30-pound bicycle needs a 20-pound lock and chain.
3. A 40-pound bicycle needs a 10-pound lock and chain.
4. A 50-pound bicycle needs no lock or chain.

The higher up the organization, the fewer people appreciate Murphy's Law.

Never conduct negotiations before 10:00 a.m. or after 4:00 p.m. Before 10:00 you appear too anxious, and after 4:00 they think you're desperate.

No job is too small to botch.