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A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.
Anonymous Murphy's Law
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Inspection
Never say “oops” while your patient is conscious.
Stettner's Law for Surgeons
Doctors
Health
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Patients
If your project doesn't work, look for the part you didn't think was important.
Biondi's Law
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Don't ever make the same mistake twice, unless it pays.
Mae West
(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
Mistakes
Problems
Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a bigger can.
Zymurgy's First Law of Systems Dynamics
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Can of worms
Conrad Schneiker
As you grow older, you stand for more and fall for less.
Anonymous
Accidents
Age
Beliefs
Old
Falling
Nobody notices the big errors.
Mayne's Law
Mistakes
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Errors
Murphy’s Law only fails when you try to demonstrate it.
Another Axiom to Murphy’s Law
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
There are only two problems with people: One is that they don't think; The other is that they do.
McLean's Maxim
Murphy’s Laws
People
Problems
Thinking
Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
Hoare's Law of Large Problems
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Situations
New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
Russell Baker
(1925 – ) columnist & journalist
Accidents
New York City
People
Places
Problems
Pedestrian
Status Quo: Latin for “the mess we’re in.”
Anonymous
Definitions
Problems
Status quo
Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.
‘Yogi' Berra
(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Mistakes
Yogi-isms
Head
Mental Errors
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
Walter Gropius
(1883 – 1969) German architect & founder of the Bauhaus School
Mistakes
People
Problems
Specialists
The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.
Roy Acuff
(1903 – 1992) country music singer, fiddler & promoter
Failure
Government
Politics
Defeat
Governors
No matter how careful one is in resealing the inner liner in a cereal box, it will tear where it is glued to the box.
Stale's Law
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Cereal boxes
We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughn
(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor
Characteristics
Education
Learning
Problems
Time
Day
Wrong
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Edward A. Murphy Jr.
(1918 – 1990) American aerospace engineer
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.
Simon's Law of Destiny
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Things
Breakage
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
Mary Buckley
author
Husbands
Marriage
Problems
Hot water
Trouble
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Failure
Problems
Success
Only sons
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