Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 5)

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

The one ingredient you made a special trip to the store to get will be the one thing your guest is allergic to.

Negative expectations yield negative results; positive expectations yield negative results.

The real objective of a committee is not to reach a decision, but to avoid it.

He travels fastest who travels alone… but he hasn’t anything to do when he gets there.

The number of stones in your boot is directly proportional to the number of hours you have been on the trail.

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

A place you want to get to is always just off the edge of the map you happen to have handy.

Never, ever, fly on the airline of the country from which you are departing.

The hardness of the butter is in direct proportion to the softness of the roll.

The only way to avoid hitting a tree is to aim at it.

Anything dropped in the bathroom falls in the toilet.

Everything goes wrong all at once.

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

1. Anything done while honking your horn is legal.
2. You may park anywhere if you turn your four-way flashers on.
3. A red light means the next six cars may go through the intersection.

Virtue is its own punishment.

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

The less you say, the less you have to take back.

If the people of a democracy are allowed to do so, they will vote away the freedoms which are essential to that democracy.

If you drop a full can of beer, and remember to rap the top sharply with your knuckle prior to opening, the ensuing gush of foam will be between 89 and 94 percent of the volume that would splatter you if you didn't do a damned thing and went ahead and pulled the top immediately.

Any experiment is reproducible until another laboratory tries to repeat it.