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Murphy's Technology Law #1: You can never tell which
way the train went by looking at the track.
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Murphy's Technology Law #2: Logic is a systematic
method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
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Murphy's Technology Law #3: Technology is dominated
by those who manage what they do not understand.
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Murphy's Technology Law #4: If builders built
buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the
first woodpecker that came along would destroy
civilization.
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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.
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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.
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Murphy's Technology Law #7: All great discoveries are
made by mistake.
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Murphy's Technology Law #8: Nothing ever gets built
on schedule or within budget.
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Murphy's Technology Law #9: All's well that ends...
period.
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Murphy's Technology Law #10: A meeting is an event at
which minutes are kept and hours are lost.
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Murphy's Technology Law #11: The first myth of
management is that it exists. ["And I love this
one." --- Rod]
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Murphy's Technology Law #12: A failure will not
appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
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Murphy's Technology Law #13: New systems generate new
problems.
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Murphy's Technology Law #14: To err is human, but to
really foul things up requires a computer.
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Murphy's Technology Law #15: We don't know
one-millionth of one percent about anything.
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Murphy's Technology Law #16: Any given program, when
running, is obsolete.
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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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