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Murphy’s Laws
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Murphy's Law cannot be proven, yet is correct, as when you try to prove Murphy's Law, you will see that the proof is incorrect. This is obviously due to Murphy's Law, therefore Murphy's Law is correct and proven.
Proof of Murphy's Law
Murphy’s Laws
A condominium is just an apartment with a down payment.
Specht’s Discovery
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Condominiums
Robert Specht
1. The probability of a cat eating its dinner has absolutely nothing to do with the price of the food placed before it. 2. The probability that a household pet will raise a fuss is directly proportional to the number and importance of your guests.
Fish's Laws of Animal Behavior
Animals
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Behavior
Guests
Pets
The incidence of anything worthwhile is either 15-25 percent or 80-90 percent.
LaCombe's Rule of Percentages
Murphy’s Laws
Situations
Odds
No child throws up in the bathroom.
Laura's Law
Children
Health
Murphy’s Laws
Bathrooms
People with money live so damn long.
Edwinn's Corollary
Age
Life
Murphy’s Laws
Old
Every revolutionary idea – in Science, Politics, Art or whatever – evokes three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the three phrases: 1. It is completely impossible; don't waste my time. 2. It is possible, but it is not worth doing. 3. I said it was a good idea all along.
Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas
Ideas
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
People
Arthur C. Clarke
Whenever a system becomes completely defined, someone discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.
Brooke's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Systems
If a taxpayer thinks he can cheat safely, he probably will.
Diogenes's Second Dictum
Government
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Taxes
Cheating
If you start to clean your desk in the spare bedroom you will probably have to clean the garage to find what you need to finish cleaning the desk.
Watson's Law of Cleaning
Housework
Murphy’s Laws
Cleaning
All general statements are false.
The Ultimate Law
Characteristics
Murphy’s Laws
General statements
When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money and the person with the money will get some experience.
Lauder's Law
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Experience
Incoming fire has the right-of-way.
A Murphy's Military Law
Military
Murphy’s Laws
Incoming fire
Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor’s course.
Fourth Law of Applied Terror
Education
Learning
Murphy’s Laws
Class
Instructors
1. That which has not yet been taught directly can never be taught directly 2. If at first you don’t succeed, you will never succeed.
Forthoffer's Cynical Summary of Barzun's Laws
Education
Murphy’s Laws
Success
Teaching
No matter which direction you start it’s always against the wind coming back.
Andrews's Canoeing Postulate
Activities
Murphy’s Laws
Canoeing
Directions
Wind
There is no such thing as an unattached woman.
The Rueful Bachelor's Law
Murphy’s Laws
People
Relationships
Women
Always remember that you are absolutely unique, just like everyone else.
Meade's Maxim
Murphy’s Laws
People
Self
Unique
There is only one thing worse than dreaming you are at a conference and waking to find that you are at a conference, and that is the conference where you can't fall asleep.
Czecinski's Conclusion
Murphy’s Laws
Situations
Sleep
Conferences
Dreaming
Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.
Computer Programmer's Lament
Computers
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Programming
There are no answers, only cross references.
Weiner's Law of Libraries
Murphy’s Laws
Answers
Cross references
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