Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 7)

A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

The total attention paid to an instructor is a constant regardless of the size of the class.

If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical methods.

When traveling with children… at least one child of any number of children will request a rest room stop exactly halfway between any two given rest areas.

The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

People with money live so damn long.

There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday.

As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.

The worst golf shots always occur when playing with someone you are trying to impress.

The perceived usefulness of an article is inversely proportional to its actual usefulness once bought and paid for.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

No job is too small to botch.

The last rush-hour express bus to your neighborhood leaves five minutes before you get off work.

If rats are experimented upon, they will develop cancer.

A little ignorance can go a long way.

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.

All trails have more uphill sections than they have level or downhill sections.

When the product is destined to fail, the delivery system will perform perfectly.

1. Dust breeds 2. One's roommate (who has early classes) has an alarm clock that is louder than God's own. 3. When one has an early class, one's roommate will invariably enter the space late at night and suddenly become hyperactive, ill, violent, or all three.

Pocket calculator batteries that have lasted all semester will fail during the math final.