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The successful pundit is provided more opportunities to say things than he has things worth saying.

Murphy’s Laws

Most accidents in well-designed systems involve two or more events of low probability occurring in the worst possible combination.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

The one ingredient you made a special trip to the store to get will be the one thing your guest is allergic to.

Cooking Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Office machines that function perfectly during normal business hours will break down when you return at night to use them for personal business.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don’t let anyone know it.

Murphy’s Laws

The first 90 percent of the task takes 90 percent of the time. The last 10 percent takes the other 90 percent.

Murphy’s Laws Time

A malfunctioning car will stop displaying symptoms of imminent breakdown when driven to within one-quarter mile of a garage.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

It always takes longer to get there than to get back.

Murphy’s Laws Time Travel

Badness comes in waves.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

Fat is lost last where it is wanted the least. Corollary 1: Fat is lost first from areas of high desirability.
Corollary 2: With time fat flows from areas of high to low desirability. – Hal Belknap, M.D.

Appearance Body Fat Murphy’s Laws

The better the four-wheel drive, the further away you'll be when you get stuck.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

Don’t draw fire, it irritates the people around you.

Military Murphy’s Laws

It's bad luck to be superstititious.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws

Only a fool can reproduce another fool’s work.

Fools Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Work

Passengers on elevators constantly rearrange their positions as people get on and off so there is at all times an equal distance between all bodies.

Murphy’s Laws

Experiments should be reproducible… they should all fail in the same way.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

As soon as you mention something, if it's good, it goes away; if it's bad, it happens.

Characteristics Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

Murphy’s Laws

No matter which way you ride, it's uphill and against the wind.

Murphy’s Laws

No job is too small to botch.

Failure Murphy’s Laws

The more boring and out-of-date the magazines in the waiting room, the longer you will have to wait for your scheduled appointment.

Health Murphy’s Laws