Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 8)

People with money live so damn long.

Those who don’t study the past will repeat its errors; those who do study it will find OTHER ways to err.

There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.

He who hesitates is last.

Everybodyworks for the sales department

To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

Copying machines mangle only important documents.
Corollary: If a machine goes wild and runs off 180 copies, it will do so only when you are copying a personal letter.

Love is a matter of chemistry; sex is a matter of physics.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

If you're going to rape, pillage and burn, be sure to do things in that order.

If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong.

If you have to park six blocks away, you will find two new parking spaces right in front of the building entrance.

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

If you know something can go wrong, and take due precaution to prevent it, something else will go wrong.

The guy you beat out of a prime parking space is the one you have to see for a job interview.

The less you do, the less can go wrong.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Food consumed standing up always has ten times the calorific intake of food consumed sitting down.

Anything that happens enough times to irritate you will happen at least once more.

You remember to mail a letter only when you're nowhere near a mailbox.

If a thing cannot be fitted into something smaller than itself, some dope will do it.