“If something can go wrong, it will”
“My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.”
Source: The Poet at the Breakfast-table
“When you’re kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back—the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy’s Law.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“Murphy's Law; When someone says 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' nine times out of ten, it's the money.”
Source: That Book of Perfectly Useless Information
“Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn’t human.”
Source: Live Echoes
“Inadvertently, I had stumbled across what has been called the Harvard law of animal behavior, which is related to Murphy's law: "You can have the most beautifully designed experiment with the most carefully controlled variables, and the animal will do what it damn well pleases.”
Source: Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
“Limmar Ponyets was completely a-lather when the call reached his receiver - which proves that the old bromide about telemessages and the bathtub holds true even in the dark, hard space of the Galactic Periphery.”
Source: Foundation
“The universe won’t do this to us,’ I whispered to myself. ‘It’s indifferent, but it isn’t actually cruel.’
Perhaps I believed myself, for a moment or two.”
Source: Inhibitor Phase
“Make peace with the fact that there will be those who bitch no matter what you do. You might as well do what makes you happy, so at least when you hear the bitching, you'll know that the event they're griping about was exactly the one you wanted.”
Source: Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
“I don't think we should have a dinosaur that poops kids.”
Source: Dead Hunt