- In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right ... something is wrong.
- Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
- Every solution breeds new problems.
- The chance of the buttered side of the bread falling face down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
- No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.
- Great ideas are never remembered and dumb statements are never forgotten.
- Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.
Murphy's golden rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules.