Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 54)

The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

Incompetence tends to increase with the level of work performed. And naturally the individual’s staff needs will increase as his level of incompetence increases.

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD.

Kids used to ask you where they came from – now they tell you where to go.

Laziness is the mother of nine inventions out of ten.

In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totaled correctly after 4:40 p.m. on Friday.

Your wife's stored possessions will always be on top of your stored possessions.

The one piece that holds the whole thing together will be missing.

Evil is live spelled backwards.
Corollary: If it feels good, don't do it.

The mud that won’t come off on the doormat immediately adheres to the carpet.

Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.

Everything depends.

When the product is destined to fail, the delivery system will perform perfectly.

The direction of take-off will be opposite that of the final destination.

The most undesirable things are the most certain (death and taxes).

The effectiveness of a telephone conversation is in inverse proportion to the time spent on it.

All the good ones are taken.

Authorization for a project will be granted only when none of the authorizers can be blamed if the project fails but when all of the authorizers can claim credit if it succeeds.

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.