Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 85)

The weight of your pack increases in direct proportion to the amount of food you consume from it; if you run out of food, the pack weight goes on increasing anyway.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

There's no time like the present for postponing what you don't want to do.

An object will fall so as to do the most damage.

The minute you sign a client is the minute you start to lose him.

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.

Remember on your walk through life, the grass made greener on the other side of the fence is caused by “pasture pies.”

When putting things back together again, there will always be at least one piece left over that will not fit anywhere.

The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting on the nothing you are doing.

The larger the project or job, the less time there is to do it.

Any horizontal surface is soon piled up.

When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

As soon as the stewardess serves the coffee, the airliner encounters turbulence.
Davis's Explanation of Roger's Law: Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.

Merely because the group is in formation does not mean that the group is on the right course.

A cigarette placed in an ashtray will go out if you stay in the room; if you leave the room, the cigarette will topple to the table, burn through, and drop to the floor, where it will smolder until it descends to ignite the drapes in the room below.

The most interesting paper will be scheduled simultaneously with the second most interesting paper.

Strive to look tremendously important.

Get re-elected.

Flying pests are more likely to enter the ears, eyes, nose and throat when both hands are in use.

No books are lost by loaning except those you particularly wanted to keep.

You can't fall off the floor.