Murphy's Laws of Technology:

#5.) If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

#12.) Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

#16.) A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.

#17.) New systems generate new problems.

#18.) To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

#22.) A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make.

#25.) The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

#28.) Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable and three parts which are still under development.

#31.) Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.

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And I think we all know the grand finale:

#3.) Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

More of Murphy's laws

-- (tedjennings@business.net), June 24, 1999

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Oh and I just found this one too I thought was relevant:

IBM Pollyanna Principle

Machines should work. People should think.

-- (tedjennings@business.net), June 24, 1999.

ONIELLS LAW

Murphy was an Optimist!

-- Barry (barryjaynes@usenvitech.com), June 24, 1999.