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The less you do, the less can go wrong.
Law of Retroaction
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
A valuable dropped item will always fall into an inaccessible place (a diamond ring down the drain, for example) – or into the garbage disposal while it is running.
Anonymous Murphy’s Law
Accidents
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
Clifton Fadiman
(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host
Intelligence
Mind
Mistakes
People
Problems
Germans
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly
(1903 – 1974) English intellectual, literary critic & writer
Failure
Problems
Potential
Promise
In this world there are winners and losers – and, of course, ‘the others’, who comprise the majority.
Simon Munnery
(1967 – ) English comedian
Failure
People
Success
Losers
Winners
If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
Anonymous Murphy's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
When all else fails, play dead.
Steve Smith
(1945 – ) Canadian comedian & actor
Problems
TV/Movie Quotes
As Red Green in “The Red Green Show”
Play dead
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong, is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician
Failure
Problems
Automatic: If something is automatic, that simple means that you can’t repair it yourself.
Anonymous
Definitions
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Repair
Accident: Any negligent or malicious behavior performed by someone with a clever lawyer.
Mike Barfield
British writer, cartoonist, poet & performer
Definitions
Problems
Accident
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett
(1930 – ) financier & investment businessman
Characteristics
Problems
Trouble
I learned in my car that I could not have children; it was the day that I locked my keys in my car with the engine running.
Jamie Kaler
(1964 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor
Autos
Children
Family
Mistakes
Problems
I made a wrong mistake.
‘Yogi' Berra
(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Misspokements
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There is always one more bug.
Law of Cybernetic Entomology
Computers
Mistakes
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Things
It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.
Ashleigh Brilliant
(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist
Mistakes
Problems
The bag that breaks is the one with the eggs.
Woodside's Grocery Principle
Accidents
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Bags
Eggs
All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Marriage
Problems
Trouble
Those who don’t study the past will repeat its errors; those who do study it will find OTHER ways to err.
Wolf's Law of History Lessons
Murphy’s Laws
Past
People
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
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
Austin O’Malley
(1858 – 1932) American physicist, physician & humorist
Problems
Situations
Holes
You don't get ulcers from what you eat; you get them from what's eating you.
Vicki Baum
(1888 – 1960) Austrian writer
Eating
Food/Drink
Health
Problems
Ulcers
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