Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 58)

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The length of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

Murphy’s Laws

The best shots are generally attempted through the lens cap.

Murphy’s Laws Things

There are four kinds of people: those who sit quietly and do nothing, those who talk about sitting quietly and doing nothing, those who do things, and those who talk about doing things.

Communication Murphy’s Laws People Speech

Beauty times brains equals a constant.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by incompetents.

Murphy’s Laws People

The only way to avoid hitting a tree is to aim at it.

Golf Murphy’s Laws Sports

In letters themes reports articles and stuff like that we use commas to keep strings apart.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

The distance you have to park from your apartment increases in proportion to the weight of packages you are carrying.

Autos Murphy’s Laws

All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Money Murphy’s Laws

If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Urgency varies inversely with importance.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Your pocket radio won't pick up the station you want to hear most.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws

No matter how long it takes for you to get back to pick up the shoes the shoemaker will tell you that they won't be ready until tomorrow.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

Keep up with the Grabowskis… you'll never make enough to keep up with the Joneses.

Money Murphy’s Laws

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

Murphy’s Laws

There is no proposition, no matter how foolish, for which a dozen Nobel signatures cannot be collected.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

If it looks easy, it's tough… if it looks tough, it's near impossible.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Situations

The rate of hospital admissions responds to bed availability; if we insist on installing more beds, they will tend to get filled.

Health Murphy’s Laws

All great discoveries are made by mistake

Corollary: The greater the funding, the longer it takes to make the mistake.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

The fewer functions any device is required to perform, the more perfectly it can perform those functions.

Murphy’s Laws Things

The one course you must take to graduate will not be offered during your last semester.

Education Murphy’s Laws