Subject: Problems (Page 10)

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

(1836 – 1911) English dramatist, librettist, poet & illustrator
Problems Things

Anytime you wish to demonstrate something, the number of faults is proportional to the number of viewers.

Murphy’s Laws People Problems

The time it takes to rectify a situation is inversely proportional to the time it took to do the damage.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

The most delicate component will be dropped.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Things

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

If you view your problem closely enough, you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Self

When your head is in the bear's mouth, it is not the time to be smacking him on the nose.

Communication Problems

We made too many wrong mistakes.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Mistakes Yogi-isms

Success can be insured only by devising a defense against failure of the contingency plan.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Success

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity… another man’s, I mean.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Problems

When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?"

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

(1903 – 1992) country music singer, fiddler & promoter
Failure Government Politics

It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter
Failure Success

Most accidents in well-designed systems involve two or more events of low probability occurring in the worst possible combination.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Failure Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
Accidents Money Poverty

Office machines that function perfectly during normal business hours will break down when you return at night to use them for personal business.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler – and less trouble.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Characteristics Problems Situations

Accident: Any negligent or malicious behavior performed by someone with a clever lawyer.

British writer, cartoonist, poet & performer
Definitions Problems

A falling nozzle will turn toward you and land on its trigger.

Problems Things

If anything can't go wrong… it will.

Murphy’s Laws Problems