Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 50)

The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs.

Go where the money is.

The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack.

Any order that can be misunderstood has been misunderstood.

The Course of Progress: Most things get steadily worse.
The Path of Progress: A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.

Birthday parties always end in tears.

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.

The world is more complicated than most of our theories make it out to be.

When you are right, be logical; when you are wrong, be-fuddle.

Only a bureaucracy can fight a bureaucracy.

Where zoning is not needed, it will work perfectly; where it is desperately needed, it always breaks down.

Never try to replicate a successful experiment.

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

Seven-eighths of everything can't be seen.

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom.

What will get you promoted on one level will get you killed on another.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

It’s the wrong size.

The scratch on the record is through the song you like most.

You can't fall off the floor.