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Main › Archives › Quotes › Category: Murphy's Laws and stuff
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| Email Friend | | | Cooke's Law
In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available
is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.
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| Email Friend | | | Calkin's Law of Menu Language
The number of adjectives and verbs that are added to the description of a
menu item is in inverse proportion to the quality of the dish.
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| Email Friend | | | Anthony's Law of the Workshop:
Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least accessible
corner of the workshop.
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| Email Friend | | | Beifeld's Principle:
The probability of a young man meeting a desirable and
receptive young female increases by pyramidal progression when
he is already in the company of:
(1) a date,
(2) his wife,
(3) a better looking and richer male friend.
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| Email Friend | | | DeVries's Dilemma:
If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want
hits the paper.
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| Email Friend | | | Drew's Law of Highway Biology:
The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in
front of your eyes.
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| Email Friend | | | Fifth Law of Applied Terror:
If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
Corollary: If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget
where you live.
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| Email Friend | | | - Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is
supposed to be doing.
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| Email Friend | | | - The more pretentious a corporate name, the smaller the organization.
(For instance, The Murphy Center for Codification of Human and Organizationa
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Law, contrasted to IBM, GM, AT&T ...).
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| Email Friend | | | - You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.
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