Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 87)

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If everybody wants it, nobody gets it.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

The cigarette smoke always drifts in the direction of the non-smoker regardless of the direction of the breeze.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Situations

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

Murphy’s Laws

1. Incompetence knows no barriers of time or place.
2. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
3. If at first you don't succeed, try something else.

Murphy’s Laws People Work

Unlimited warranties are usually neither.

Murphy’s Laws

He travels fastest who travels alone… but he hasn’t anything to do when he gets there.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Travel

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

Characteristics Conflict Murphy’s Laws

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Murphy’s Laws

The wages of sin are unreported.

Money Murphy’s Laws Taxes

The less you say, the less you have to take back.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

(1918 – 1990) American aerospace engineer
Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Murphy’s Laws

Never read any book in which the author’s name appears in gold or silver on the cover.

Books Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Everyone who does not work has a scheme that does.

Murphy’s Laws Work

1. If it is green or it wiggles – it is Biology.
2. If it stinks – it is Chemistry.
3. If it doesn’t work – it is Physics.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Science/Weather

It is better to have a horrible ending than to have horrors without end.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once.
2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points.

Murphy’s Laws

The sun always shines between the visors.

Murphy’s Laws

When you look for something you will not find it, but when you are looking for something else you will.

Murphy’s Laws

As an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) grows longer, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or Nazism.

Murphy’s Laws

If you want it done quickly, it won't be done correctly.

Murphy’s Laws Work