Subject: Problems

There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The leak in the roof is never in the same location as the drip.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we’re in.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor
Communication Language Misspokements Problems Speech

General solutions to specific problems become specific problems requiring general solutions.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

No real problem has a solution.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Any bus that can be the wrong bus will be the wrong bus. All others are out of service or full.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

(1772 – 1851) American Presbyterian theologian & professor
Fools Intelligence Mistakes Problems

The one piece that holds the whole thing together will be missing.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

The mistake you make is in trying to figure it out.

(1911 – 1983) playwright
Mistakes Problems

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an automobile accident, you begin to worry about history.

(1953 – ) comedian & actor
Accidents Autos History Time Truth

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 Problems

I don't look to jump over seven-foot bars: I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over.

(1930 – ) financier & investment businessman
Problems

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Mechanics, not microbes, are the menace to civilization.

(1868 – 1952) British writer
Problems

To a quick question, give a slow answer.

Problems

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist
Problems

For every problem science solves, it creates ten new one.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The first shall be last and the last shall be first, but if you're in the middle, you're stuck there.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs.

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Murphy’s Laws Problems

Yesterday I accidentally hit a little kid with my car; it wasn’t serious – nobody saw me.

(1978 – ) American writer & stand-up comedian
Accidents Problems