Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 77)

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The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional to the number and significance of any persons watching it.

Murphy’s Laws People Problems

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

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Murphy’s Laws

Organizations always have too many managers.

Murphy’s Laws

The length of a progress report is inversely proportional to the amount of progress.

Murphy’s Laws

The length of debate varies inversely with the complexity of the issue.

Murphy’s Laws Time

A bus will arrive only when the would-be rider has walked to a point so close to the destination that it is no longer worthwhile to board the bus.

Murphy’s Laws

If you can be off by one… you will be.

Murphy’s Laws

He who hesitates is last.

Murphy’s Laws

1. Any line, however short, is still too long.
2. Work is the crabgrass of life, but money is the water that keeps it green.

Murphy’s Laws Work

In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof.

Fools Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

A dropped object will fall with an acceleration of 32 feet per second per second, and if it is your wallet, it will make every effort to land in a public toilet.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.

Murphy’s Laws

There are no answers, only cross references.

Murphy’s Laws

Progress is made on alternate Fridays.

Murphy’s Laws

Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well-being.

Murphy’s Laws

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

(1966 – ) American magazine editor
Government Murphy’s Laws

A parade should have bands OR horses, not both.

Murphy’s Laws

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretence of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

Murphy’s Laws

Any new activity will cause more trouble than you can possibly imagine.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations