Monday, August 18, 2008

Murphy's Law and Its Corollaries

MURPHY'S LAW:If anything can go wrong, it will.

COROLLARIES:
1. Finagle's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will - at the worst possible moment.
2. Hanlon's Law: Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
3. Callahan's Principle: You can't argue with stupid.
4. Zymurgy's Law: Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a bigger can.
5. Hoare's Law: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
6. Dirac's Law: The speaker who knows least speaks the longest.
7. Sturgeon's Law: Nothing is always absolutely so.
8. Bye's Law: Anytime you wish to demonstrate something, the number of faults is proportional to the number of viewers.
10. Missett's Law: The further back from the traffic light you are, the sooner you will see it green.
11. Jensen's Law: You can never find what you're looking for, until you stop looking for it.
12. Muphry's Law: If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you've written.
13. Silverman's Paradox: If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.

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