Murphy's Laws
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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 -- All great discoveries are made by mistake.
Murphy's Technology Law #6 -- Nothing ever gets built on schedule or
within budget.
Murphy's Technology Law #7 -- All's well that ends... period.
Murphy's Technology Law #8 -- A meeting is an event at which minutes are
kept and hours are lost.
Murphy's Technology Law #9 -- The first myth of management is that it
exists.
Murphy's Technology Law #10 -- A failure will not appear until a unit
has passed final inspection.
Murphy's Technology Law #11 -- New systems generate new problems.
Murphy's Technology Law #12 -- Any given program, when running, is
obsolete.
Murphy's Technology Law #13 -- A computer makes as many mistakes in two
seconds as 20 men working 20 years make.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-Bill Cosby
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