Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 80)

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After large expenditures of federal, state, and county funds; after much confusion generated by detours and road blocks; after greatly annoying the surrounding population with noise, dust, and fumes – the previously existing traffic jam is relocated by one-half mile.

Autos Murphy’s Laws

The hidden flaw never remains hidden.

Murphy’s Laws

The time it takes to rectify a situation is inversely proportional to the time it took to do the damage.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

If the converse of a statement is absurd, the original statement is an insult to the intelligence and should never have been said.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Speech

Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness.

Murphy’s Laws

The shortest distance between two points is a downward spiral.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

Always assume that your assumption is invalid.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Thinking

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

Appearance Murphy’s Laws Success

The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

When you're up to your nose, keep your mouth shut.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

Any bureaucracy reorganized to enhance efficiency is immediately indistinguishable from its predecessor.

Murphy’s Laws

If you dance with a grizzly bear, you had better let him lead.

Murphy’s Laws

Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.

Government Money Murphy’s Laws

We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to… to…

Intelligence Memory Murphy’s Laws

If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy.

Military Murphy’s Laws

To err is human – to blame it on someone else is even more human.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

The progress of science varies inversely with the number of journals published.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing Science/Weather

An easily understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex, incomprehensible truth.

Characteristics Honesty Intelligence Lies Murphy’s Laws Truth

Just when you get really good at something you don’t need to do it anymore.

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