Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 68)

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The time of departure will be delayed by the square of the number of people involved.

Murphy’s Laws People Time

If you want your name spelled wrong, die.

Communication Death Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Once a dish is fouled up, anything added to save it only makes it worse.

Cooking Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

If you haven’t struck oil in twenty minutes, quit boring.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

Avoid any action with an unacceptable outcome.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

A watched pot never boils over.

Murphy’s Laws

Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.

Murphy’s Laws

When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found to have been correct in the first place

Corollary: After the correction has been found in error, it will be impossible to fit the original quantity back into the equation.

Ideas Intelligence Mistakes Murphy’s Laws

When a body is immersed in water, the telephone will ring.

Murphy’s Laws

Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence in their colleagues.

Murphy’s Laws Work

A retreating enemy is probably just falling back and regrouping.

Military Murphy’s Laws

When in doubt, empty the magazine.

Arms Military Murphy’s Laws

If your condition seems to be getting better, it's probably your doctor getting sick.

Doctors Health Murphy’s Laws

The cream rises to the top. So does the scum.

Murphy’s Laws

Speak with authority; however, expound only on the obvious and proven facts.

Murphy’s Laws

When you look for something you will not find it, but when you are looking for something else you will.

Murphy’s Laws

Tact is the art of telling someone to lose thirty pounds without ever using the word “fat.”

Characteristics Fat Murphy’s Laws

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

Computers Murphy’s Laws Things

In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty.

Murphy’s Laws

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.

(1930 – ) American author and billiard player, teacher & commentator
Failure Murphy’s Laws Things

This will hurt me more than it hurts you.

Murphy’s Laws