Mutphy’s Law : The 26th Anniversary Edition

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[ General Murphology ]

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Everything takes longer than you think it will.

If there is possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which s procedure can go wrong, and circumvent there, then a fifth way will promptly develop.

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

Every solution breeds new problems.

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Mother nature is a bitch.

Nature always sides with hidden flaw.

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If anything can’t go wrong, it will.

If everything can go wrong, it will.

If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right.

You never run out of things that can go wrong.

First things first, but not necessarily in the order.

When things go wrong, don’t go with them.

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Murphy was a optimist.

When things are going well, something will go wrong.

When things just can’t get any worse, they will.

Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

No matter what goes wrong, it will probably right.

If Murphy’s Law can go wrong, it will.

When a person attempts s task, he will be thwarted in the task by the unconscious intervention of some other(animate or inanimate), Nevertheless, some takes are completed since the intervening presence is itself attempting a task and is, of course, subject to interference.

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Sooner or later, the worst possible set of circumstances is bound to occur.

Any system must be designed to withstand the worst possible set of circumstances.

Everything put together falls apart sooner or later.

In crises that force people to choose among alternative courses of action, most people will choose the worst possible.

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Things get worse under pressure.

Avoid any action with an unacceptable outcome.

Nothing ever goes away.

Anything that begins well ends badly.

Anything that begins badly ends worse.

If it looks easy, it’s tough.

If it looks tough, it’s damn well impossible.

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Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use larger can.

Never open a can of worms unless you pain to go fishing.

Ninety percent of everything is crud.

As soon as you mention something

- if it’s good, it goes away.

- if it’s bad, it happens/

Negative expectations yield negative results.

Positive expectations yield negative results.

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Murphy’s Law was not propounded by Murphy, but by another man of the same name.

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

In any given set of circumstances, the proper course of action is determined by subsequent events.

If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.

Things go right so they can go wrong.

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You can know something has gone wrong only when you make an odd number of mistakes.

Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come.

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

Where there’s a will, there’s a won’t.

If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

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No matter what goes wrong, there is always somebody who know it would.

The shortest distance between two points is a downward spiral.

The amount of aggravation in the universe is a constant.

If things are going well in one area, they are going wrong in another.

It takes less time to do something right than it takes to explain why you did it wrong.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

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The less you do, the less can go wrong.

Murphy’s Law ma be delayed or suspended for an indefinite period time, provided that such delay or suspension will result in a grater catastrophe at a later date.

The magnitude of the catastrophe is directly proportional to the number of people watching.

The magnitude of the catastrophe is exponentially proportional to the importance of the occasion.

If an outcome has a 50 percent chance of occurring, its actual probability of happening is inversely proportional to the desirability of the outcome.

If two corollaries of Murphy’s Law contradict each other, the one with Greater potential for damage takes precedence.

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If you know what you were doing you’d probably be bored.

Just because you’re bored doesn’t mean you know what you’re doing.

If we knew what we were getting into we would never get into anything.

Nothing will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

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It is always hard to notice what isn’t there.

To learn from your mistakes, you must first realize that you are making mistakes.

Things always take longer than you anticipate, even if you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

Careful planning is no substitute for dump luck.

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Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

The only way to make something foolproof is to keep it away from fools.

You can make it foolproof, but you can’t make it damn foolproof

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

If at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished.

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Any given Law will not be named for the person who created it.

It’s not who said, it’s who named it.

Any quotation that can be (ａlｔｅｒｅｄ) changed will be.

Everything depends.

Nothing is always.

Everything is sometimes.

Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment.

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When you need to knock on wood is when you realize you word’s composed of aluminum and vinyl.

Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other.

It is impossible for an optimist to be pleasantly surprised.

A crisis is when you can’t say “let’s forget the whole thing”.

Washing your car to make it rain doesn’t work.

The worst is enemy of the bad.

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An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds.

A pessimist fears this is true.

Of two possible events, only the undesired one will occur.

There is no limit to bad things can get.

There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

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You can’t guard against the arbitrary.

Never be first.

Never be last.

Never volunteer for anything.

Good judgment comes from bad experience.

Experience comes from bud judgment.

Quantity = 1/quality ; or, quantity is inversely proportional to quality.

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Urgency varies inversely with importance.

Never do anything you wouldn’t be caught dead doing.

All inanimate objects can move just enough to get in your way.

There’s never time to do it right, but there’s always time to do it over.