Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 81)

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Design flaws travel in groups.

Murphy’s Laws

A committee of three gets things done if two don’t show up.

Murphy’s Laws People

What is good politics is bad economics; what is bad politics is good economics; what is good economics is bad politics; what is bad economics is good politics.

Government Murphy’s Laws Politics

Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.

Murphy’s Laws Time

The wages of sin are unreported.

Money Murphy’s Laws Taxes

Exceptions always outnumber rules.

Murphy’s Laws

If you allow someone to get in front of you, you both will have the same destination, and the other car will get the last parking space.

Driving Murphy’s Laws

1. An object in motion will be heading in the wrong direction.
2. An object at rest will be in the wrong place.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Things

A clever remark is one you don’t make at the appropriate moment but compose immediately after.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

1. Anything that begins well ends badly. 2. Anything that begins badly ends worse.

Murphy’s Laws

Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about.

Murphy’s Laws

If you start to clean your desk in the spare bedroom you will probably have to clean the garage to find what you need to finish cleaning the desk.

Housework Murphy’s Laws

A fool and your money are soon partners.

Fools Money Murphy’s Laws

Spend sufficient time confirming the need and the need will disappear.

Murphy’s Laws Time

All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.

Murphy’s Laws

When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found to have been correct in the first place

Corollary: After the correction has been found in error, it will be impossible to fit the original quantity back into the equation.

Ideas Intelligence Mistakes Murphy’s Laws

The probability of winning is inversely proportional to the amount of the wager.

Money Murphy’s Laws

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

Computers Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Murphy’s Laws Time

The number of laws will expand to fill the publishing space available.

Murphy’s Laws

The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants.

Communication Conversation Intelligence Murphy’s Laws People Speech