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Murphy’s Laws
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Wind velocity increases directly with the cost of the hairdo.
Reynold's Law of Climatology
Hair
Murphy’s Laws
Wind
Justice always prevails… three times out of seven.
Alley's Axiom
Murphy’s Laws
Justice
Most people deserve each other.
Shirley's Law
Murphy’s Laws
People
Relationships
Incompetence tends to increase with the level of work performed. And naturally the individual’s staff needs will increase as his level of incompetence increases.
Riggs’s Hypothesis
Murphy’s Laws
Work
(Arthur J. Riggs)
Incompetence
Everything costs more and takes longer.
Pournelle's Law of Costs and Schedules
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Expense
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
The incidence of anything worthwhile is either 15-25 percent or 80-90 percent.
LaCombe's Rule of Percentages
Murphy’s Laws
Situations
Odds
People ask stupid questions for a reason.
Davidson's Law of Inquiry
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
Stupid questions
The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
Unknown
Golf
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Sports
As soon as you mention something, if it's good, it goes away; if it's bad, it happens.
The Unspeakable Law
Characteristics
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Speech
Bad
Good
You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
Maugham's Law
Characteristics
Murphy’s Laws
Principles
1. If you must make a decision, delay it.
2. If you can authorize someone else to avoid a decision, do so.
3. If you can form a committee, have them avoid the decision.
4. If you can otherwise avoid a decision, avoid it immediately.
Rangnekar's Modified Rules Concerning Decisions
Murphy’s Laws
Decisions
If you run into an old girlfriend – no matter how innocently – your wife will know about it before you get home.
Murphy's First Law for Husbands
Husbands
Marriage
Murphy’s Laws
Wives
1. If you like it, they don't have it in your size. 2. If you like it and its in your size, it doesn't fit anyway. 3. If you like it and it fits, you can't afford it. 4. If you like it, it fits, and you can afford it, it falls apart the first time you wash it.
Hadley's Laws of Clothing Shopping
Appearance
Clothing
Murphy’s Laws
Shopping
Go where the money is.
Sutton's Law
Money
Murphy’s Laws
(Willie Sutton)
No matter what stage of completion one reaches, the cost of the remainder of the project remains constant.
Sixth Law of Project Management
Murphy’s Laws
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Allen's Law of Civilization
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Civilization
If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
Murphy's Fifth Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
All inanimate objects can move just enough to get in your way.
Young's Law of Inanimate Mobility
Murphy’s Laws
Things
The more a recruit knows about a given subject, the better chance he has of being assigned to something else.
Gumperson's – Corollary II
Murphy’s Laws
Work
Recruits
There is no proposition, no matter how foolish, for which a dozen Nobel signatures cannot be collected.
Nobel Effect
Ideas
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
Nobel Prize
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