Murphy’s Laws
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Murphy’s First Law:
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Murphy’s Second Law:
Everything takes longer than you think.
Murphy’s Third Law:
In any field of scientific endeavor, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Murphy’s Fourth Law:
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
Murphy’s Fifth Law:
If anything cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
Murphy’s Sixth Law:
If you perceive that there are four possible ways which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for and usually worse, will promptly develop.
Murphy’s Seventh Law:
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
Murphy’s Eighth Law:
If everything seems to be going well, you’ve obviously overlooked something.
Murphy’s Ninth Law:
Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
Murphy’s Tenth Law:
Mother nature is a bitch.
Murphy’s Eleventh Law:
It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.