Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 74)

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If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?"

Murphy’s Laws Problems

I called my lawyer and said, ‘Can I ask you two questions?’ He said, ‘What’s the second question?

Government Lawyers Murphy’s Laws

For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Murphy’s Laws Problems

You never run out of things that can go wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Any horizontal surface is soon piled up.

Murphy’s Laws

1. If you're wondering if you took the meat out to thaw, you didn't. 2. If you're wondering if you left the coffee pot plugged in, you did.

Cooking Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts – not the facts themselves.

Facts Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

To err is human; to really foul things up takes a computer.

Computers Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

Never tell them what you wouldn't do.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

Caveats are always* forgotten.
*Caveat: except in rare instances

Murphy’s Laws

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

Murphy’s Laws

These pills can't be habit-forming; I've been taking them for years.

Murphy’s Laws

If there is a wrong thing to say, one will.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.

Computers Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Things

Enough research will tend to support your theory.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Work

The probability of arriving at the job site without a needed tool or with the wrong hardware are directly proportional with the square of the travel distance.
Corollary: You will always have what you need when the job is next to your shop.

Murphy’s Laws Things Work

Law expands in proportion to the resources available for its enforcement.

Government Murphy’s Laws

Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.

Conflict Murphy’s Laws

No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.

Murphy’s Laws

It is much harder to find a job than to keep one.

Murphy’s Laws Work