Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 51)

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What is good politics is bad economics; what is bad politics is good economics; what is good economics is bad politics; what is bad economics is good politics.

Government Murphy’s Laws Politics

Actually, it only seems as though you mustn't be deceived by appearances.

Appearance Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

Things that must be together to work usually can't be shipped together; things which must be shipped together as a set, aren't.

Murphy’s Laws

Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by incompetents.

Murphy’s Laws People

If something is confidential, it will be left in the copier machine.

Murphy’s Laws

Never argue with a fool… people might not know the difference.

Fools Murphy’s Laws

The time it takes to rectify a situation is inversely proportional to the time it took to do the damage.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

If you can't learn to do it well, you should learn to enjoy doing it badly.

Education Learning Murphy’s Laws Success

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Murphy’s Laws

Love is a matter of chemistry; sex is a matter of physics.

Emotions Love Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Murphy’s Laws

It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.

Health Money Murphy’s Laws Wealth

If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; if you can't pick it up, paint it.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The best simple-minded test of expertise in a particular area is the ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

Money Murphy’s Laws

About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Government Murphy’s Laws

If you have only one nail, it will bend.

Murphy’s Laws

The faster a computer is, the faster it will reach a crashed state.

Computers Failure Murphy’s Laws Things

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.

Murphy’s Laws

A cigarette placed in an ashtray will go out if you stay in the room; if you leave the room, the cigarette will topple to the table, burn through, and drop to the floor, where it will smolder until it descends to ignite the drapes in the room below.

Murphy’s Laws