Murphy's Technology Laws

*You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
*Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
*Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.
*Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.
*If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
*The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.
*The attention span of a computer is only as long as it electrical cord.
*An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
*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.
*All great discoveries are made by mistake.
*Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
*Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
*All's well that ends.
*A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
*The first myth of management is that it exists.
*A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.
*New systems generate new problems.
*To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
*We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
*Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
*Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
*A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make.
*The faster a computer is, the faster it will reach a crashed state.
*Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's work.
*Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book.
*The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

Thanks to http://emblazenedsojournings.blogspot.com/