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The number of open service windows at banks, post offices, airline counters, etc... always equals [n/2 - m], n being the total number of windows and m being a random number between 1 and the total number of windows minus 1.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about commerce, numbers, bankers, being

If it is pouring rain, you can be sure the windows are open at one or more at your units.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about rain, real estate, irony, contentment

If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, tests, contentment

Your batteries will always go dead during a long exposure so with the shutter open.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography

When the level of anticipation is highest, this sensor causes the back to flip open exposing the film.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography, film

When it’s time to leave for the airport to your first EOT, and all your pards are waiting in the is car, that’s the time the safe will refuse to open and the only safe/lock smith within 50 miles is on vacation and your CAS friend, Yellow Dog Tick,...

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cowboys, time

The floppy which worked perfectly alright few minutes ago on your machine will not open in your boss's or client's machine.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about customers, heads

In general it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you're a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about doubt, people, contentment

Never open a pill bottle over the bathroom sink.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

Keys dropped near an open elevator door will always fall down the crack.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about expectation, fall

The relationships that people have that are sexual, psychological, emotional these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair about opinion, parents, sex, rightness, people

I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.

Quote by Sharon Osbourne about recollection, celebrity, public, life

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

Quote by Clive Owen about proudness, career, things

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about happiness, risk, being

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

Quote by Rafael Palmeiro about love

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about people, privacy

So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.

Quote by Evan Parker about mind, things, contentment

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie, the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

Quote by Francis Parkman about opinion, air, sky, light

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about need

Moreover, the structure of a theoretical system tells us what alternatives are open in the possible answers to a given question.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about question