Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 57)

The First Law of Economists: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist.
The Second Law of Economists: They're both wrong.

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

If you have enough meetings over a long enough period of time, the meetings become more important than the problem the meetings were intended to solve.

1. If you can only do one thing well there is no market for it.

2. You can never do just one thing.

The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

When dangling, don't use participles.

If a research project is not worth doing at all, it is not worth doing well.

The higher the “higher-ups“ are who've come to see your demo, the lower your chances are of giving a successful one.

If you did manage to get any good shots, they will be ruined when someone inadvertently opens the darkroom door and all of the dark leaks out.

If you're going to rape, pillage and burn, be sure to do things in that order.

Everything costs more and takes longer.

The one who does the least work will get the most credit.

Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

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

Grass growing from sidewalk cracks never turns brown.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Success is the result of behavior that completely contradicts the usual expectations about the behavior of a successful person.

If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

The speed of exit of a civil servant is directly proportional to the quality of his service.

Every solution breeds new problems.