Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 52)

1. A rolling stone gathers momentum.
2. Progress is nondirectional.

The rate of hospital admissions responds to bed availability; if we insist on installing more beds, they will tend to get filled.

No matter which direction you start it’s always against the wind coming back.

If it feels good, it’s ugly. If it looks good, it hurts.

History does not repeat itself; historians simply repeat each other.

The person who buys the most raffle tickets has the least chance of winning.

If the converse of a statement is absurd, the original statement is an insult to the intelligence and should never have been said.

If your action has a 50% possibility of being correct, you will be wrong 75% of the time.

Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least.

public relations manager

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

What we learn after we know it all, is what counts.

Caveats are always* forgotten.
*Caveat: except in rare instances

If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush.

It will always break just when you need it the most.

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

Anybody can win – unless there happens to be a second entry.

You should have seen it when I got it.

The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.

Never eat prunes when you're hungry.