Murphy's Law

1. Murphy's Law • Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug.

2. Murphy's Law • Law of Revelation: The hidden flaw never remains hidden.

3. Murphy's Law • The Unspeakable Law: As soon as you mention something; If it is good, it goes away. If it is bad, it happens.

4. Murphy's Law • The Ultimate Law: All general statements are false.

5. Murphy's Law • Manly's Maxim: Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

6. Murphy's Law • (Douglas) Hofstadter's Law: Any computer project will take twice as long as you think it will even when you take into account Hofstadter's law.

7. Murphy's Law • Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.

8. Murphy's Law • Sattinger's Law: It works better if you plug it in.

9. Murphy's Law • Segal's Law: A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

10. Murphy's Law • Schmidt's Observation: All things being equal, a fat person uses more soap than a thin person.

11. Murphy's Law • Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

12. Murphy's Law • Shaw's Principle: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

13. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Computer Law 37: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent take the other ninety percent.

14. Murphy's Law • Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it - get a bigger hammer.

15. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Computer Law 21: Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

16. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Military Laws: 14. There is nothing more satisfying than having someone take a shot at you, and miss.

17. Murphy's Law • Lewis' Law: No matter how long or hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.

18. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Computer Law 15: Program results should always be reproducible. They should all fail in the same way.

19. Murphy's Law • Harver's Law: A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

20. Murphy's Law • Quantized Revision of Murphy's Law: Everything goes wrong all at once.

21. Murphy's Law • Rule of Accuracy: When working towards the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

22. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Computer Law 59: Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a larger can.

23. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Computer Law 51: In any human endeavor, once you have exhausted all possibilities and fail, there will be one solution, simple and obvious, highly visible to everyone else.

24. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Computer Law 20: Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

25. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Computer Law 30: Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.

26. Murphy's Law • Woltman's Law: Never program and drink beer at the same time.

27. Murphy's Law • MacDonald's Second Law: Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and give it back to them.

28. Murphy's Law • Jone's Motto: Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

29. Murphy's Law • Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labour: People are always available for work in the past tense.

30. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Computer Law 14: In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.

31. Murphy's Law • Lowery's Law: If it jams - force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

32. Murphy's Law • Design flaws travel in groups. - Anonymous

33. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Computer Law 8: There is always one item on the screen menu that is mislabeled and should read "ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE".

34. Murphy's Law • Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

35. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Computer Law 53: After months of training and you finally understand all of a program's commands, a revised version of the program arrives with an all-new command structure.

36. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Computer Law 16: Do not believe in miracles. Rely on them.

37. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Computer Law 32: Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.

38. Murphy's Law • Sevareid's Law: The chief cause of problems is solutions.

39. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Computer Law 22: The amount of expertise varies in inverse proportion to the number of statements understood by the general public.

40. Murphy's Law • Berra's Law: You can observe a lot just by watching.

41. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Fifth Law: If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

42. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Military Laws: 5. The problem with taking the easy way out is that the enemy has already mined it.

43. Murphy's Law • First Postulate of Isomurphism: Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other.

44. Murphy's Law • Lyall's Fundamental Observation: The most important leg of a three legged stool is the one that's missing.

45. Murphy's Law • Murphy's Computer Law 36: Things get worse under pressure.

46. Murphy's Law • Witten's Law: Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will find a need for them an hour later.

47. Murphy's Law • Finagle's First Law: If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.

48. Murphy's Law • Non-Reciprocal Law of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results.

49. Murphy's Law • The Whispered Rule: People will believe anything if you whisper it.

50. Murphy's Law • Peer's Law: The solution to the problem changes the problem.