Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 74)

An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

If you can’t explain what you’re doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

1. If you want something badly, that's how you get it. 2. Many "get-rich-quick" schemes make millionaires – out of multi-millionaries.

Once you overcome your fear of public speaking, you’ll never be asked to speak again.

Just between you and I, case is important.

Exceptions prove the rule, and destroy the battle plan.

To make an enemy, do someone a favor.

In matters of dispute, the bank's balance is always smaller than yours.

If anything can't go wrong… it will.

Any significant military action will occur at the junction of two or more map sheets.

The quality of a champagne is judged by the amount of noise the cork makes when it is popped.

The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it.

The local density of mosquitos is inversely proportional to your remaining repellent.

Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.

1. Giving away baby clothes and furniture is a major cause of pregnancy. 2. Always be backlit. 3. sit down whenever possible.

Make it sufficiently difficult for people to do something, and most people will stop doing it.

The more cordial the buyer’s secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.

There is a solution to every problem; the only difficulty is finding it.

1. Giving away baby clothes and furniture is a major cause of pregnancy. 2. Always be backlit. 3. Sit down whenever possible.

Whenever you lose contact with the enemy, look behind you.