Breaking Murphy's Law » Quotes http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com Because when you're presenting, someone's always watching. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:54:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Quote for the next time the projector blub blows on your second slide… http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com/2011/11/19/quote-for-the-next-time-the-projector-blub-blows-on-your-second-slide/ http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com/2011/11/19/quote-for-the-next-time-the-projector-blub-blows-on-your-second-slide/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:45:38 +0000 Lee Potts http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com/?p=2387 It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

- Clive James

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]]> http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com/2011/11/19/quote-for-the-next-time-the-projector-blub-blows-on-your-second-slide/feed/ 0 Quote: When the sea is calm http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com/2011/03/31/quote-sea-calm/ http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com/2011/03/31/quote-sea-calm/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:06:02 +0000 Lee Potts http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com/?p=2255 Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

~Publilius Syrus (via @KristinJArnold)

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~Laurence J. Peter (via Execupundit)

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]]> http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com/2011/02/28/fortune/feed/ 0 Offered without comment… http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com/2011/02/25/offered-without-comment/ http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com/2011/02/25/offered-without-comment/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:05:43 +0000 Lee Potts http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com/?p=2172 One-time college newspaper colleague, Oliver Mackson, now an investigator for the Dutchess County Public Defender, recently tweeted:

Nancy the senior investigator, after I fumbled a phone conference: “I’d say you need to master the three-way, but you might take it wrong.”

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Nancy the senior investigator, after I fumbled a phone conference: “I’d say you need to master the three-way, but you might take it wrong.”


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Amateurs discuss tactics and rank amateurs discuss grand strategy while professionals discuss logistics.

~ Old military saying

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Amateurs discuss tactics and rank amateurs discuss grand strategy while professionals discuss logistics.

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