Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 5)

Wind velocity increases directly with the cost of the hairdo.

Justice always prevails… three times out of seven.

Most people deserve each other.

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.

Everything costs more and takes longer.

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.

The incidence of anything worthwhile is either 15-25 percent or 80-90 percent.

People ask stupid questions for a reason.

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.

As soon as you mention something, if it's good, it goes away; if it's bad, it happens.

You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

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.

If you run into an old girlfriend – no matter how innocently – your wife will know about it before you get home.

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.

Go where the money is.

No matter what stage of completion one reaches, the cost of the remainder of the project remains constant.

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

All inanimate objects can move just enough to get in your way.

The more a recruit knows about a given subject, the better chance he has of being assigned to something else.

There is no proposition, no matter how foolish, for which a dozen Nobel signatures cannot be collected.