Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 86)

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The less you know about an opportunity, the more attractive it is.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

It isn't that things will necessarily go wrong (Murphy's Law), but rather that they will take so much more time and effort than you think if they are not to go wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

A hand in the bush is worth two anywhere else.

Murphy’s Laws

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Following the path of least resistance is what makes men and rivers crooked.

Characteristics Honesty Murphy’s Laws

The shortest route has the steepest hills.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

You don’t start traditions – traditions start.

Murphy’s Laws

Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so they always point upwards from the floor… especially in the dark.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Situations Things

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

Communication Conversation Intelligence Murphy’s Laws People Speech

If you play with anything long enough, it will break.

Murphy’s Laws Things Time

1. The more general the title of a course, the less you will learn from it. 2. The more specific a title is, the less you will be able to apply it.

Education Murphy’s Laws School

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Murphy’s Laws

Never buy a car that has a wick.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Random events tend to occur in groups.

Murphy’s Laws

If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws

Exceptions prove the rule, and destroy the battle plan.

Military Murphy’s Laws

When two people meet to decide how to spend a third person's money, fraud will result.

Money Murphy’s Laws People

These pills can't be habit-forming; I've been taking them for years.

Murphy’s Laws

Any theory can be made to fit any facts by means of appropriate additional assumptions.

Facts Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

When the product is destined to fail, the delivery system will perform perfectly.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems