Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 82)

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It works better if you plug it in.

Murphy’s Laws

The less work an organization produces, the more frequently it reorganizes.

Murphy’s Laws

Success can be insured only by devising a defense against failure of the contingency plan.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Success

Nothing is ever done for the right reason.

Murphy’s Laws

The amount of intelligence on Earth is infinite; the population increases exponentially.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Sleep

Always keep the office door closed. This puts visitors on the defensive and also makes it look as if you are always in an important conference.

Murphy’s Laws

People are always available for work in the past tense.

Murphy’s Laws People Work

Any device requiring service or adjustment will be least accessible.

Murphy’s Laws Things

When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, an unethical lawyer will immediately appear.

Lawyers Murphy’s Laws

The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal.

Murphy’s Laws

Typesetters always correct intentional errors, but fail to correct unintentional ones.

Murphy’s Laws

If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.

Education Murphy’s Laws Places School

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

Communication Insults Murphy’s Laws

Batteries die at the most critical time of the most complex problem.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

The amateur is the one with all the answers.

Murphy’s Laws

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Murphy’s Laws

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

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

Murphy’s Laws Time

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

If you take something apart and put it back together enough times, eventually you will have two of them.

Murphy’s Laws