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- From: eyhung@garnet.berkeley.edu (Eugene Hung)
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- Subject: Re: Murphy's Laws and other laws
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 00:39:04 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <kencham.725224236@centi> kencham@centi.cs.umn.edu (Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >Wondering if anyone had a list of Murphy's Laws and the like.
-
- Murphy's First Law:
- Nothing is as easy as it looks.
-
- Murphy's Second Law:
- Everything takes longer than you think.
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- Murphy's Third Law:
- 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.
- Corollary:
- If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
-
- Murphy's Fifth Law:
- If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
-
- Murphy's Sixth Law:
- If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure
- can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for,
- 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 have 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.
-
- Murphy's Twelfth Law:
- Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
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- Murphy's Thirteenth Law:
- Every solution breeds new problems.
-
- Eugene
-