Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 53)

If the shoe fits, it’s ugly.

Whenever two fishing lines are contiguous, they will become continuous.

The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

What will get you promoted on one level will get you killed on another.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

Happiness is a warm puppy with an empty bladder.

The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

Paper is always strongest at the perforations.

It goes in – it must come out.

When a broken appliance is demonstrated to the repairman, it will work perfectly.

Whatever happens, look as if it was intended.

No matter how early you arrive, someone else is in line first.

There is more law in the end of a policeman’s nightstick than in a decision of the Supreme Court.

Virtue is its own punishment.

Our customer's paperwork is profit. Our own paperwork is loss.

Neutral countries – aren’t.

If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know.

Negative expectation thwarts realization, and self-congratulation guarantees disaster. (Or, simply put… if you think of it, it won't happen quite that way.)

The more trivial your research, the more people will read it and agree.
Corollary: The more vital your research, the less people will understand it.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which speciified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind; Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly.

(1923 – 1999) American satirical novelist, short story writer & playwright

Professional soldiers are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs.