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Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

Law of Wisdom

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Power

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Proverb

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Success Privacy Public

The lagging activity in a project will invariably be found in the area where the highest overtime rates lie waiting.

Boyle's Laws - 4

Money Murphy’s Laws Work

The most important leg of a three legged stool is the one that's missing.

Lyall's Fundamental Observation

Murphy’s Laws Things Three legged stool

Research is reading two books that have never been read in order to write a third that will never be read.

NASA Truism

Books Communication Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing Research

No one is as ugly as their passport photo.

Parson's Law of Passports

Appearance Murphy’s Laws Ugly Passports Photographs

1. No matter how much you do, you'll never do enough. 2. What you don't do is always more important than what you do do.

Worker's Dilemma Law (or Management's Put-Down Law)

Murphy’s Laws Doing things Effort

If your next pot of chili tastes better, it probably is because of something left out, rather than added.

Chili Cook's Secret

Cooking Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Ingredients

If “sense” is so common, how come we don’t see more of it around?

Bishop’s Query

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws C.B. Bishop Common sense

Never trust a private with a loaded weapon, or an officer with a map and compass.

A Murphy's Military Law

Military Murphy’s Laws

One of the greatest unsolved riddles of restaurant eating is that the customer usually gets faster service when the restaurant is crowded than when it is half empty; it seems that the less the staff has to do, the slower they do it.

Harris's Restaurant Paradox

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Crowds Restaurants Riddles Speed

Inanimate objects are scientifically classified into three major categories – those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Russell Baker

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

Murphy’s Laws Things

The one who does the least work will get the most credit.

Shapiro's Law of Reward

Murphy’s Laws Work Credit

Random events tend to occur in groups.

Tylczak's Probability Postulate

Murphy’s Laws Random events

Officials make work for each other.

Parkinson's Axioms II

Murphy’s Laws People Work

Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

Murphy’s Third Corollary

Murphy’s Laws (also Benedict's Principle) Nature

Any theory can be made to fit any facts by means of appropriate additional assumptions.

Schumpeter's Observation of Scientific and Nonscientific Theories

Facts Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Assumptions Theories

It requires less energy to take an object out of its proper place than to put it back.

MacPherson's Theory of Entropy

Murphy’s Laws Effort

The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle.

Stapp's Ironical Paradox

Murphy’s Laws Accomplishments Col. John P. Stapp

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

Eban's Law

History Murphy’s Laws People Wisdom Nations

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Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 50)

Those who know the least will always know it the loudest.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

The lagging activity in a project will invariably be found in the area where the highest overtime rates lie waiting.

The most important leg of a three legged stool is the one that's missing.

Research is reading two books that have never been read in order to write a third that will never be read.

No one is as ugly as their passport photo.

1. No matter how much you do, you'll never do enough. 2. What you don't do is always more important than what you do do.

If your next pot of chili tastes better, it probably is because of something left out, rather than added.

If “sense” is so common, how come we don’t see more of it around?

Never trust a private with a loaded weapon, or an officer with a map and compass.

One of the greatest unsolved riddles of restaurant eating is that the customer usually gets faster service when the restaurant is crowded than when it is half empty; it seems that the less the staff has to do, the slower they do it.

Inanimate objects are scientifically classified into three major categories – those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.

The one who does the least work will get the most credit.

Random events tend to occur in groups.

Officials make work for each other.

Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

Any theory can be made to fit any facts by means of appropriate additional assumptions.

It requires less energy to take an object out of its proper place than to put it back.

The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle.

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