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Murphy's Laws of Technology
- You can never tell which way the train went by
looking at the track.
- Logic is a systematic method of coming to the
wrong conclusion with confidence.
- Technology is dominated by those who manage
what they do not understand.
- If builders built buildings the way
programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would
destroy civilization.
- An expert is one who knows more and more about
less and less until he/she knows absolutely everything about nothing.
- 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.
- All great discoveries are made by mistake.
- Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within
budget.
- All's well that ends . . . period.
- A meeting is an event at which minutes are
kept and hours are lost.
- The first myth of management is that it
exists.
- A failure will not appear until a unit has
passed final inspection.
- New systems generate new problems.
- To err is human, but to really foul things up
requires a computer.
- We don't know one-millionth of one percent
about anything.
- Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
- A computer makes as many mistakes in two
seconds as 20 men working 20 years make.
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