Murphy's Laws

[SadMan]

1. If you explain something so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.
2. When leaving work late, you will go unnoticed. When leaving work early, you will meet your boss in the parking lot.
3. After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.
4. The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
5. Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
6. Never make a decision you can get someone else to make.
7. Nothing is as temporary as that which is called permanent.
8. Trust only those who stand to lose as much as you if things go wrong.
9. People specialize in their area of greatest weakness.
10. Cleanliness is next to impossible.
11. The length of a progress report is inversely proportional to the amount of progress.

[SadMan]

Murphy's First Law: Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Murphy's Second Law: Everything takes longer than you think.
Murphy's Third Law: In any field of scientific endeavor, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Murphy's Fourth Law: 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.
Murphy's Fifth Law: If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
Murphy's Sixth 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.
Murphy's Seventh Law: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
Murphy's Eighth Law: If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Murphy's Ninth Law: Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
Murphy's Tenth Law: It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.
O'Toole's Commentary on Murphy's Laws: Murphy was an optimist.