Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 55)

Don't let anyone kid you about the life of Riley.

Get re-elected.

Everything is cold except what should be.

He who laughs last probably didn’t get the joke.

If you start to clean your desk in the spare bedroom you will probably have to clean the garage to find what you need to finish cleaning the desk.

Food consumed standing up always has ten times the calorific intake of food consumed sitting down.

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

When in doubt, empty the magazine.

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.

If, while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field's employment is glutted.


If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong.

If you want your name spelled wrong, die.

Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will find a need for them an hour later.

Anything worth doing is worth doing in excess.

The one who snores will fall asleep first.

Whatever creates the greatest inconvenience for the largest number must happen.

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretence of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

1. Dust breeds 2. One's roommate (who has early classes) has an alarm clock that is louder than God's own. 3. When one has an early class, one's roommate will invariably enter the space late at night and suddenly become hyperactive, ill, violent, or all three.

Successful research attracts the bigger grant which makes further research impossible.

When the enemy is closing, the artillery will always be long