Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 51)

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

Murphy’s Laws

Auditors always reject any expense account with a bottom line divisible by five or ten.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Among economists, the real world is often a special case.

Murphy’s Laws

The one wrench or drill bit you need will be the one missing from the tool chest.

Murphy’s Laws

People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent; people who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

Money Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it's compromising.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.

Murphy’s Laws

In a hierarchical organization, the higher the level, the greater the confusion.

Murphy’s Laws People

You will need three umbrellas: one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

Intelligence Memory Murphy’s Laws

Nothing is so frustrating as a bad situation that is beginning to improve.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Every revolutionary idea – in Science, Politics, Art or whatever – evokes three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the three phrases: 1. It is completely impossible; don't waste my time. 2. It is possible, but it is not worth doing. 3. I said it was a good idea all along.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws People

Never do anything you wouldn’t get caught dead doing.

Life Murphy’s Laws

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Murphy’s Laws

When putting cheese in a mousetrap, always leave room for the mouse.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

1. Never draw what you can copy.
2. Never copy what you can trace.
3. Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Tolerances will accumulate unidirectionally toward maximum difficulty of assembly.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The grass is brown on both sides of the fence.

Death Murphy’s Laws

If it jams, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

Accidents Failure Murphy’s Laws

The length of time it takes a bill to pass through the legislature is in inverse proportion to the number of lobbying groups favoring it.

Government Law Murphy’s Laws Time