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Murphy’s Laws
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1. A rolling stone gathers momentum.
2. Progress is nondirectional.
Sharple’s Philosophy
Murphy’s Laws
Virginia Sharples
The rate of hospital admissions responds to bed availability; if we insist on installing more beds, they will tend to get filled.
Roemer's Law
Health
Murphy’s Laws
Hospitals
No matter which direction you start it’s always against the wind coming back.
Andrews's Canoeing Postulate
Activities
Murphy’s Laws
Canoeing
Directions
Wind
If it feels good, it’s ugly. If it looks good, it hurts.
Shoe-Shopper’s Rule
Activities
Murphy’s Laws
Shopping
Sally Hass
Shoes
History does not repeat itself; historians simply repeat each other.
History
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Historians
Otto Bettman
The person who buys the most raffle tickets has the least chance of winning.
Gumperson's – Corollary V
Murphy’s Laws
Raffle tickets
Winning
If the converse of a statement is absurd, the original statement is an insult to the intelligence and should never have been said.
Boultbee's Criterion
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
Speech
Statements
If your action has a 50% possibility of being correct, you will be wrong 75% of the time.
Anonymous Murphy’s Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least.
Rozanne Weissman
public relations manager
Characteristics
Murphy’s Laws
People
Approval
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
What we learn after we know it all, is what counts.
Groya's Law
Education
Learning
Murphy’s Laws
Caveats are always* forgotten.
*Caveat: except in rare instances
Battleson’s Blathrskite
Murphy’s Laws
Caveats
Kirk Battleson
If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush.
A Murphy's Military Law
Military
Murphy’s Laws
Ambushes
It will always break just when you need it the most.
Anonymous Murphy’s Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Things that must be together to work usually can't be shipped together; things which must be shipped together as a set, aren't.
A Murphy's Military Law
Murphy’s Laws
Supplies
Anybody can win – unless there happens to be a second entry.
Ade's Law
Murphy’s Laws
George Ade
Winning
You should have seen it when I got it.
Bureaucratic Cop-Out #1
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Bureaucracy
The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed.
Vail's Second Axiom
Murphy’s Laws
Work
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
Trollope’s Rule
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Reading/Writing
Time
(Anthony Trollope)
The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.
Law of Institutions
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Institutions
Opulence
Solvency
Never eat prunes when you're hungry.
Schmidt's Law
Eating
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
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