Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 82)

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

Murphy’s Laws

Anything may be divided into as many parts as you please.

Murphy’s Laws

If you view your problem closely enough, you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Self

Less is more.

Murphy’s Laws

It's bad luck to be superstititious.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws

Computing power increases as the square of the cost; if you want to do it twice as cheaply, you have to do it four times slower.

Computers Money Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Situations Things

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

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

Those who are unable to learn from past meetings are condemned to repeat them.

Murphy’s Laws

The sun always rises in the baby's bedroom window.

Children Murphy’s Laws Situations

Highways in the worst need of repair naturally have low traffic counts, which results in low priority for repair work.

Autos Murphy’s Laws

In any slide presentation, at least one slide will be upside down or backwards, or both.

Murphy’s Laws

If people listened to themselves more often, they'd talk less.

Communication Murphy’s Laws People Speech

Anytime you wish to demonstrate something, the number of faults is proportional to the number of viewers.

Murphy’s Laws People Problems

If you ask your husband to pick up five items at the store and then you add one more as an afterthought, he will forget two of the first five.

Husbands Murphy’s Laws Shopping Wives

The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

No matter how early you arrive, someone else is in line first.

Murphy’s Laws

By the time you get to the point where you can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Money Murphy’s Laws Time

Inside every small problem is a large problem struggling to get out.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

A meeting lasts at least 1 1/2 hours, however short the agenda.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Security isn’t. Management can’t. Sales promotions don’t. Customer assistance doesn’t. Worker’s won’t.

Murphy’s Laws Work

The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability.

Murphy’s Laws