Murphy's Law and Provisions
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, and at the most inopportune time.
2.Anything that you drop that can roll will roll to the place from which it is most difficult to retrieve.
3.Anything breakable will eventually get broken.
4.Anything breakable will be broken at the worst possible time.
5.Everything is breakable.
6.The warranty always expires the day before it breaks.
7.If when planning a project, you determine that there exists a possibility of 5 things going wrong, and you take measures to prevent these things from going wrong, a 6th thing that can go wrong will promptly appear and go wrong.
8.It will never rain on a day that you carry your umbrella, but the first day that you do not carry your umbrella, it will rain.
9.Water-proof never is.
10.Non-stick surfaces aren't.
11.Fool-proof never is.
12.The computer will only shut down just before you press SAVE.
13.Buttons only come off of the last clean shirt.
14.Every solution breeds new problems.
15.If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
Murphy's Law of Research :
Enough research will tend to support your theory.
Murphy's Law of Copiers :
The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance.
Murphy's Law of the Open Road :
When there is a very long road upon which there is a one-way bridge placed at random, and there are only two cars on that road, it follows that:
(1) the two cars are going in opposite directions, and
(2) they will always meet at the bridge.
Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics :
Things get worse under pressure.
The Murphy Philosophy :
Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.
Quantization Revision of Murphy's Laws :
Everything goes wrong all at once.
Murphy's Constant :
Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value
Murphy's Corollaries :
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious
Law of the Perversity of Nature (Mrs. Murphy's Corollary):
You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.
Corollary (Jenning):
The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.