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Murphy's (and Other) Laws
Original Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
The Murphy Philosophy: Smile ... tomorrow will be worse.
Murphy's Constant: Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
1 A crisis is when you can't say, "Let's forget the whole thing".
2 After things have gone from bad to worse, the cycle will repeat itself.
3 An "acceptable" level of employment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
4 An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.
5 Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers.
6 Every solution breeds new problems.
7 Everyone lies, but it doesn't matter, since nobody listens.
8 Everything depends. Nothing is always. Everything is something.
9 Everything takes longer than you think.
10 For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
11 Forgive and remember.
12 If a series of events can go wrong, it will do so in the worst possible sequence.
13 If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
14 If everybody doesn't want it, nobody gets it.
15 If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
16 If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one
to go wrong.
17 If there is a worst time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
18 If you are given an open-book exam, that is the day you will forget your book. But, if you are given a take-home test, you will forget where you live.
19 If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.
20 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.
21 If you wait it will go away. If it was bad, it'll come back.
22 Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.
23 Indecision is the basis for flexibility.
24 In order for something to come clean, something else must get dirty.
25 It is impossible for an optimist to be pleasantly surprised.
26 It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
27 Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
28 Mother nature is a b*tch.
29 Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
30 Never create a problem for which you don't have the answer.
31 Never draw what you can copy.
Never copy what you can trace.
Never trace what you can cut and paste.
32 No matter how long you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale cheaper the next day.
33 No matter what goes wrong, there is always someone who knew it would.
34 Nothing is as easy as it looks.
35 Nothing is ever done for the right reason.
36 Nothing is ever so bad, that it can't get worse.
37 Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune times.
38 The best things in the world are free -- and worth every penny of it.
39 The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the letter.
40 The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
41 The first place to look for anything is the last place you would expect to find it.
42 The item you had your eye on the minute you walk in will be taken by the person in front of you.
43 The longer you stand in line, the greater the likelihood that you are standing in the wrong line.
44 The probability of anything going wrong is in inverse proportion to its desirability.
45 The secret to success is sincerity. Once you can fake it, you've got it made.
46 The slowest checker is always at the quick check out lane.
47 The time it takes to rectify a situation is inversely proportional to the time it took to do the damage.
48 The writer will find the typos after the letter is mailed.
49 Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other.
50 Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
51 When somebody drops something, everyone will kick it around instead of picking it up.
52 When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.
53 Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will need them an hour later.
54 Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
55 You always find something the last place you look. (Boob's Law)
56 You can always find what you're not looking for.
57 You can't win them all, but you sure can lose them all.
The Murphy Philosophy: Smile ... tomorrow will be worse.
Murphy's Constant: Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
1 A crisis is when you can't say, "Let's forget the whole thing".
2 After things have gone from bad to worse, the cycle will repeat itself.
3 An "acceptable" level of employment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
4 An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.
5 Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers.
6 Every solution breeds new problems.
7 Everyone lies, but it doesn't matter, since nobody listens.
8 Everything depends. Nothing is always. Everything is something.
9 Everything takes longer than you think.
10 For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
11 Forgive and remember.
12 If a series of events can go wrong, it will do so in the worst possible sequence.
13 If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
14 If everybody doesn't want it, nobody gets it.
15 If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
16 If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one
to go wrong.
17 If there is a worst time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
18 If you are given an open-book exam, that is the day you will forget your book. But, if you are given a take-home test, you will forget where you live.
19 If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.
20 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.
21 If you wait it will go away. If it was bad, it'll come back.
22 Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.
23 Indecision is the basis for flexibility.
24 In order for something to come clean, something else must get dirty.
25 It is impossible for an optimist to be pleasantly surprised.
26 It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
27 Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
28 Mother nature is a b*tch.
29 Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
30 Never create a problem for which you don't have the answer.
31 Never draw what you can copy.
Never copy what you can trace.
Never trace what you can cut and paste.
32 No matter how long you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale cheaper the next day.
33 No matter what goes wrong, there is always someone who knew it would.
34 Nothing is as easy as it looks.
35 Nothing is ever done for the right reason.
36 Nothing is ever so bad, that it can't get worse.
37 Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune times.
38 The best things in the world are free -- and worth every penny of it.
39 The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the letter.
40 The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
41 The first place to look for anything is the last place you would expect to find it.
42 The item you had your eye on the minute you walk in will be taken by the person in front of you.
43 The longer you stand in line, the greater the likelihood that you are standing in the wrong line.
44 The probability of anything going wrong is in inverse proportion to its desirability.
45 The secret to success is sincerity. Once you can fake it, you've got it made.
46 The slowest checker is always at the quick check out lane.
47 The time it takes to rectify a situation is inversely proportional to the time it took to do the damage.
48 The writer will find the typos after the letter is mailed.
49 Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other.
50 Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
51 When somebody drops something, everyone will kick it around instead of picking it up.
52 When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.
53 Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will need them an hour later.
54 Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
55 You always find something the last place you look. (Boob's Law)
56 You can always find what you're not looking for.
57 You can't win them all, but you sure can lose them all.
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