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When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for every week you're away and get nothing done, there's another week when your boss is away and you get twice as much done.

Luten's Law

Murphy’s Laws Work Productivity Vacations

By definition, when you are investigating the unknown, you do not know what you will find.

The Ultimate Principle

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Unknown

Interchangeable devices won't.

Snafu Equation IV

Murphy’s Laws Things Interchangeable

1. Never draw what you can copy.
2. Never copy what you can trace.
3. Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.

Rules of Creative Research

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing Research

The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf.

Wells's Virtual Law

Appearance Body Golf Murphy’s Laws Sports H.G. Wells

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intention of doing you good, you should run for your life.

Thoreau's Law

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Good intentions Henry David Thoreau

Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Vonnegut’s Venting

Murphy’s Laws Kurt Vonnegut in “Hocus Pocus”

Once the erosion of power begins, it has a momentum all its own.

Law of Political Erosion

Murphy’s Laws Situations Power

When our friends get into power, they aren’t our friends any more.

Evans's Law of Political Perfidy

Age Characteristics Friends Murphy’s Laws Situations Influence

Name on building: upper class. Name on desk: middle class. Name on shirt: working class

Brooksmith’s Law of Class Distinction

Murphy’s Laws Class Names

Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed.

Oaks's Unruly Laws for Lawmakers II

Government Murphy’s Laws Legislation

If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will have more than your fair share to take.

A Murphy's Military Law

Military Murphy’s Laws

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

Keith's Observation

Murphy’s Laws Problems Squeaky wheels

In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.

Paulg's Law

America Money Murphy’s Laws Places

The more qualified candidates who are available, the more likely the compromise will be on the candidate whose main qualification is a non-threatening incompetence.

Cohen's Law of Competition

Elections/Voting Government Murphy’s Laws Candidates Incompetence

It's better to go when you have to go – than to go and find you've already gone.

Campbell's Travelling-with-the-Kids Law

Children Murphy’s Laws Travel

Procrastination shortens the job and places the responsibility for its termination on someone else (i.e., the authority who imposed the deadline.)

First Law of Procrastination

Murphy’s Laws Procrastination

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Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 68)

New systems generate new problems.

The simple explanation always follows the complex solution.

If you make something idiot-proof, the world will create a better idiot.

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish yourself as an expert.

When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for every week you're away and get nothing done, there's another week when your boss is away and you get twice as much done.

By definition, when you are investigating the unknown, you do not know what you will find.

Interchangeable devices won't.

1. Never draw what you can copy.
2. Never copy what you can trace.
3. Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.

The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intention of doing you good, you should run for your life.

Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Once the erosion of power begins, it has a momentum all its own.

When our friends get into power, they aren’t our friends any more.

Name on building: upper class. Name on desk: middle class. Name on shirt: working class

Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed.

If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will have more than your fair share to take.

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.

The more qualified candidates who are available, the more likely the compromise will be on the candidate whose main qualification is a non-threatening incompetence.

It's better to go when you have to go – than to go and find you've already gone.

Procrastination shortens the job and places the responsibility for its termination on someone else (i.e., the authority who imposed the deadline.)