Author: Anonymous Murphy's Law

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.

If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number.

The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Never step in anything soft.

The more cordial the buyer’s secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, and that is sufficient.

When there are sufficient funds in the checking account, checks take two weeks to clear; when there are insufficient funds, checks clear overnight.

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.

Murphy’s Law never fails except when you try to demonstrate it.

To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.

The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day’s work.

No name, no matter how simple, can be correctly understood over the phone.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.

When a broken appliance is demonstrated to the repairman, it will work perfectly.

Exceptions prove the rule… and wreck the budget.