{"id":88,"date":"2017-07-06T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wijsnet.com\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2017-07-06T16:46:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:46:56","slug":"murphys-technology-laws","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.wijsnet.com\/index.php\/murphys-law\/murphys-technology-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy’s Technology Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.<\/li>\n
  2. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.<\/li>\n
  3. Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.<\/li>\n
  4. Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.<\/li>\n
  5. If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.<\/li>\n
  6. The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.<\/li>\n
  7. The attention span of a computer is only as long as it electrical cord.<\/li>\n
  8. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.<\/li>\n
  9. Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he’ll have to touch to be sure.<\/li>\n
  10. All great discoveries are made by mistake.<\/li>\n
  11. Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.<\/li>\n
  12. Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.<\/li>\n
  13. All’s well that ends.<\/li>\n
  14. A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.<\/li>\n
  15. The first myth of management is that it exists.<\/li>\n
  16. A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.<\/li>\n
  17. New systems generate new problems.<\/li>\n
  18. To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.<\/li>\n
  19. We don’t know one millionth of one percent about anything.<\/li>\n
  20. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.<\/li>\n
  21. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.<\/li>\n
  22. A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make.<\/li>\n
  23. Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day’s work.<\/li>\n
  24. Some people manage by the book, even though they don’t know who wrote the book or even what book.<\/li>\n
  25. The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.<\/li>\n
  26. To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.<\/li>\n
  27. After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.<\/li>\n
  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.<\/li>\n
  29. A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.<\/li>\n
  30. If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number.<\/li>\n
  31. Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.<\/li>\n
  32. Give all orders verbally. Never write anything down that might go into a “Pearl Harbor File.”<\/li>\n
  33. Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables the organism will do as it damn well pleases.<\/li>\n
  34. If you can’t understand it, it is intuitively obvious.<\/li>\n
  35. The more cordial the buyer’s secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.<\/li>\n
  36. In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totalled correctly after 4:30 p.m. on Friday. The correct total will become self-evident at 8:15 a.m. on Monday.<\/li>\n
  37. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. And scratch where it itches.<\/li>\n
  38. All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.<\/li>\n
  39. The only perfect science is hind-sight.<\/li>\n
  40. Work smarder and not harder and be careful of yor speling.<\/li>\n
  41. If it’s not in the computer, it doesn’t exist.<\/li>\n
  42. If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.<\/li>\n
  43. When all else fails, read the instructions.<\/li>\n
  44. 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.<\/li>\n
  45. Everything that goes up must come down.<\/li>\n
  46. Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner.<\/li>\n
  47. Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way.<\/li>\n
  48. Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.<\/li>\n
  49. The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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