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Inverse Rule of Contracts: the smaller the dollar amount...

Inverse Rule of Contracts: the smaller the dollar amount of a contract the longer it will take to negotiate.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about commerce, rules

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between...

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Quote by Hans Eysenck

The amount of love someone feels for you is inversely...

The amount of love someone feels for you is inversely proportional to how much you love them.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love

The duration of a relationship to a person is inversely...

The duration of a relationship to a person is inversely proportionate to the importance of person to you.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, people

The amount of members of the opposite sex you pursue is...

The amount of members of the opposite sex you pursue is inversely proportional to pretty much everything about you, such as intelligence.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, intelligence, sex

Your seduction potential is inversely proportional to...

Your seduction potential is inversely proportional to your willingness to seduce.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, seduction

The time a teacher takes in explaining is inversely...

The time a teacher takes in explaining is inversely proportional to the information retained by students.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, teachers, time

The probability of rain is inversely proportional to the...

The probability of rain is inversely proportional to the size of the umbrella you carry around with you all day.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about rain, day

The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely...

The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology

The degree of technical competence is inversely...

The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology

The chance a copy machine will brake down is proportional to the importance of the material that needs to be copied and inversely proportional to the amount of time till the material will be needed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, chance, time

The value of a program is inversely proportional to the...

The value of a program is inversely proportional to the weight of its output.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, value

The probability of a hardware failure disappearing is...

The probability of a hardware failure disappearing is inversely proportional to the distance between the computer and the customer engineer.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, failure

The chances of getting off work on time is inversely...

The chances of getting off work on time is inversely proportional to how much e-mail the boss leaves for until end of the day.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, chance, heads, end, work, day, time

The chances of a program doing what it's supposed to do...

The chances of a program doing what it's supposed to do is inversely proportional to the number of lines of code used to write it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, chance, numbers

An employee rank is in inverse proportion to his use of a...

An employee rank is in inverse proportion to his use of a computer, and in proportion to its performance.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, use

The likelihood of problems occurring is inversely...

The likelihood of problems occurring is inversely proportional to the amount of time remaining before the deadline.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, problems, time

The survivability of a system is directly proportional to the price of the cooling system applied to it and inversely proportional to the amount of use it sees.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, use

The amount of damage that a string of code can do is...

The amount of damage that a string of code can do is inversely proportional to the length of the string.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

At work, the authority of a person is inversely...

At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about commerce, people, authority, numbers, work

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