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Murphy's Technology Law #1:
You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the
track.
Murphy's Technology Law #2:
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion
with confidence.
Murphy's Technology Law #3:
Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not
understand.
Murphy's Technology Law #4:
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy
civilization.
Murphy's Technology Law #5:
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less
until he/she knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Murphy's Technology Law #6:
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.
Murphy's Technology Law #7:
All great discoveries are made by mistake.
Murphy's Technology Law #8:
Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
Murphy's Technology Law #9:
All's well that ends.
Murphy's Technology Law #10:
A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours
are lost.
Murphy's Technology Law #11:
The first myth of management is that it exists.
Murphy's Technology Law #12:
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final
inspection.
Murphy's Technology Law #13:
New systems generate new problems.
Murphy's Technology Law #14:
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a
computer.
Murphy's Technology Law #15:
We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Murphy's Technology Law #16:
Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
Murphy's Technology Law #17:
A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men
working 20 years make.
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