Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 54)

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Only someone who understands something absolutely can explain it so no one else can understand it.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Understanding

When the need arises, the tool or object closest to you becomes a hammer.

Murphy’s Laws

1. Always hire a rich solicitor.

2. Never buy from a rich salesman.

Lawyers Money Murphy’s Laws Wealth

Kickbacks must always exceed bribes.

Murphy’s Laws

You have taken yourself too seriously.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws People Self

Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well-being.

Murphy’s Laws

Less is more.

Murphy’s Laws

Any tool dropped while repairing an automobile will roll under the car to the vehicle's exact geographic center.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

You can never do merely one thing.

Murphy’s Laws

Gravity is a contributing factor in 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

One missed photographic opportunity creates a desire to purchase two additional pieces of equipment.

Murphy’s Laws

1. The information you have is not what you want. 2. The information you want is not what you need. 3. The information you need is not what you can obtain. 4. The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay.

Beliefs Facts Murphy’s Laws

The more food you prepare, the less your guests eat.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

If it is worth fighting for, it is worth fighting dirty for.

Conflict Fights Murphy’s Laws

The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

Murphy’s Laws People Work

Anyone having supervisory responsibility for the completion of a task will invariably protest that more resources are needed.

Murphy’s Laws Work

Two percent don’’t get the word.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

1. The more general the title of a course, the less you will learn from it. 2. The more specific a title is, the less you will be able to apply it.

Education Murphy’s Laws School

The life expectancy of a house plant varies inversely with its price and directly with its ugliness.

Appearance Murphy’s Laws Ugly

Tolerances will accumulate unidirectionally toward maximum difficulty of assembly.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Any theory can be made to fit any facts by means of appropriate additional assumptions.

Facts Intelligence Murphy’s Laws