Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 52)

The amount of intelligence on Earth is infinite; the population increases exponentially.

If you knew what you were doing you'd probably be bored.

In letters themes reports articles and stuff like that we use commas to keep strings apart.

If you run into an old girlfriend – no matter how innocently – your wife will know about it before you get home.

Everything takes longer than you think.

Washington is a much better place if you are asking questions rather than answering them.

The bag that breaks is the one with the eggs.

Any inanimate object, regardless of its position, configuration or purpose, may be expected to perform at any time in a totally unexpected manner for reasons that are either entirely obscure or else completely mysterious.

If you play with anything long enough, it will break.

If you're confident after you've just finished an exam, it's because you don't know enough to know better.

Assumption is the mother of all foul-ups.

Any product cut to length will be too short.

The other line moves faster.

When you move something to a more logical place, you only can remember where it used to be and your decision to move it.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man tired in mid afternoon.

The number of adjectives and verbs that are added to the description of a menu item is in inverse proportion to the quality of the dish.

It’s the wrong size.

The day of the big heat wave is the day the office air conditioning breaks down.

There's no time like the present for postponing what you don't want to do.

The higher up the organization, the fewer people appreciate Murphy's Law.

1. If it should exist, it doesn't.
2. If it does exist, it's out of date.
3. Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.