Murphy's Laws and Other Observations
Murphy's Laws
1. If anything can go wrong, it will.
2. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the first one to go wrong.
3. If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
4. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
5. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
6. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
7. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
8. Mother nature is a bitch.
O'Toole's Commentary on Murphy's Laws
Murphy was an optimist.
Ginsberg's Theorems
1. You can't win.
2. You can't break even.
3. You can't even quit the game.
Forsyth's Second Corollary to Murphy's Laws
Just when you see the light at the end of the tunnel, the roof caves in.
Weiler's Law
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
