MURPHY'S TECHNOLOGICAL LAWS
Murphy's Technology Law 1:
You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
Murphy's Technology Law 2:
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with
confidence.
Murphy's Technology Law 3:
Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.
Murphy's Technology Law 4:
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then
the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
Murphy's Technology Law 5:
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until
he/she knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Murphy's Technology Law 6:
Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he'll
believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it, and he'll have
to touch to be sure.
Murphy's Technology Law 7:
All great discoveries are made by mistake.
Murphy's Technology Law 8:
Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
Murphy's Technology Law 9:
All's well that ends... period.
Murphy's Technology Law 10:
A meeting is an event at which minutes are kept and hours are lost.
Murphy's Technology Law 11:
The first myth of management is that it exists.
Murphy's Technology Law 12:
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
Murphy's Technology Law 13:
New systems generate new problems.
Murphy's Technology Law 14:
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Murphy's Technology Law 15:
We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
Murphy's Technology Law 16:
Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
Murphy's Technology Law 17:
A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working
20 years make.