More Murphy's Laws

 

 

• If anything can go wrong, it will
  Corollary: It can
  Corollary: It should
  MacGillicuddy's Corollary: At the most inopportune time
  Extension: it will be all your fault, and everyone will know it.
• 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
  Extreme version:
  If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the FIRST to go wrong
• If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway
• If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop
  Corollary: It will be impossible to fix the fifth fault, without breaking the fix on one or more of the others
• Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse
• If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something
• Nature always sides with the hidden flaw
  Corollary: The hidden flaw never stays hidden for long.
• Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics
  Things get worse under pressure.
• The Murphy Philosophy
  Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.
• Quantization Revision of Murphy's Laws
  Everything goes wrong all at once.