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1. Anyone can make a decision given enough facts. 2. A good manager can make a decision without enough facts. 3. A perfect manager can operate in perfect ignorance.

Spencer's Laws of Data

Facts Murphy’s Laws Decisions Managers

Everything breaks down.

Orion's Law

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

Mediocrity imitates.

Heymann's Law

Murphy’s Laws Situations Mediocrity

The amount of work done varies inversely with the amount of time spent in the office.

Cropp's Law

Murphy’s Laws Time Work Office

The bag that breaks is the one with the eggs.

Woodside's Grocery Principle

Accidents Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Bags Eggs

Class schedules are designed so that every student will have time to waste between classes.

Law of Class Scheduling

Education Murphy’s Laws School Classes

It works better if you plug it in.

Sattinger's Law

Murphy’s Laws Electricity

Far-away talent always seems better than home-developed talent.

Loftus's Theory on Personnel Recruitment

Murphy’s Laws People Distance Talent

The most valuable quotation will be the one for which you cannot determine the source.

Duggan's Law of Scholarly Research

Communication Murphy’s Laws Quotations Research

A cigarette placed in an ashtray will go out if you stay in the room; if you leave the room, the cigarette will topple to the table, burn through, and drop to the floor, where it will smolder until it descends to ignite the drapes in the room below.

Aunt Emmie’s First Law

Murphy’s Laws Cigarette From Owen Elliott’s Aunt Emmie

Most accidents in well-designed systems involve two or more events of low probability occurring in the worst possible combination.

Titanic Coincidence

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

Short-term success with voters on any side of a given issue can be guaranteed by creating a long-term special study commission made up of at least three divergent interest groups.

Connolly's Rule for Political Incumbents

Elections/Voting Government Murphy’s Laws Politicians Commissions

The grass is brown on both sides of the fence.

Ed Yourdonradar's Fundamental Truth

Death Murphy’s Laws Envy Grass Reality

No experiment is ever a complete failure – it can always serve as a negative example.

Futility Factor

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Experiments

If an item is advertised as "under $50," you can bet it's not $19.95.

McGowan's Madison Avenue Axiom

Murphy’s Laws Shopping Advertising Prices

After large expenditures of federal, state, and county funds; after much confusion generated by detours and road blocks; after greatly annoying the surrounding population with noise, dust, and fumes – the previously existing traffic jam is relocated by one-half mile.

Law of Road Construction

Autos Murphy’s Laws Traffic

There's no such thing as a large whiskey.

Rev. Mahaffy's Observation

Alcohol Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Whiskey

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

Malek's Law

Communication Ideas Intelligence Language Murphy’s Laws

There is always more dirty laundry than clean laundry.

Walker’s Law of the Household

Housework Murphy’s Laws Laundry

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Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 58)

Everything goes wrong all at once.

1. Anyone can make a decision given enough facts. 2. A good manager can make a decision without enough facts. 3. A perfect manager can operate in perfect ignorance.

Everything breaks down.

Mediocrity imitates.

The amount of work done varies inversely with the amount of time spent in the office.

The bag that breaks is the one with the eggs.

Class schedules are designed so that every student will have time to waste between classes.

It works better if you plug it in.

Far-away talent always seems better than home-developed talent.

The most valuable quotation will be the one for which you cannot determine the source.

A cigarette placed in an ashtray will go out if you stay in the room; if you leave the room, the cigarette will topple to the table, burn through, and drop to the floor, where it will smolder until it descends to ignite the drapes in the room below.

Most accidents in well-designed systems involve two or more events of low probability occurring in the worst possible combination.

Short-term success with voters on any side of a given issue can be guaranteed by creating a long-term special study commission made up of at least three divergent interest groups.

The grass is brown on both sides of the fence.

No experiment is ever a complete failure – it can always serve as a negative example.

If an item is advertised as "under $50," you can bet it's not $19.95.

After large expenditures of federal, state, and county funds; after much confusion generated by detours and road blocks; after greatly annoying the surrounding population with noise, dust, and fumes – the previously existing traffic jam is relocated by one-half mile.

There's no such thing as a large whiskey.

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

There is always more dirty laundry than clean laundry.