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A curation of Murphy’s Law saying from over the years.

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Murphy's Law desk calendar

From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:

Robert’s Axiom: Only errors exist.
Berman’s Corollary to Robert’s Axiom: One man’s error is another man’s data. 

Goofy guy’s corollary to Berman’s corollary to Robert’s Axiom: There are a lot of other men using my errors as their data.

“Murphy’s Law”

Murphy's Law desk calendar

From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:

The Basic Law of Construction: Cut it large and kick it into place.

Goofy guy’s current observance of The Basic Law of Construction: i’m replacing a cross beam of our trellis this morning and intend to comply with this law. 

“Murphy’s Law”

Murphy's Law desk calendar

From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:

Robertson’s Law: Quality Assurance doesn’t.

Goofy guy’s corollary to Robertson’s Law: And if an executive of any organization claims it does, then he or she is wearing it like a hood ornament, not revealing what’s under the hood.

“Murphy’s Law”

Murphy's Law desk calendar

From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:

Wright’s First Law of Quality: Quality is inversely  proportional to the time left for completion of the project.

Goofy guy’s Navy First Lieutenant’s reflection on Wright’s First Law of Quality: It remains amazing to this old deck officer how many CO’s and XO’s would scream about properly painting out the ship, i.e. quality, but then demand radioing (Navy term for painting over rust, etc.) when a senior Navy officer or high-ranking government official was visiting within a week.

“Murphy’s Law”

Murphy's Law desk calendar

From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:

First Law of Corporate Planning: Anything that can be changed will be changed until there is no time left to change anything.

Goofy guy’s addition to the First Law of Corporate Planning: But then the planners will change the time to have enough time to change one more thing.