Murphy's Law
Murphy's law came from the American aerospace engineer named Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr. (1918 – 1990) who was working on a set of complex safety critical systems on the rocket-sled experiments of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, Ohio, United States. He had worked with great effort for a long time on his project and found that all the connections were backwards. Frustrated he said words: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong", which led to the coining of Murphy's law.
If anything can go wrong, then it will at the worst possible moment.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
Things get worse under pressure.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
If several things can go wrong, the one you would least like to happen will occur.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
An item will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
If you can think of four ways that something can go wrong, it will go wrong in a fifth way.
The range of what can go wrong varies wildly from person to person.
Everything takes longer than you think.
You never find a lost article until you replace it.
Service while you wait is usually what the other fellow is getting.
"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow" ~ Dan Rather
