Murphy’s Technology Laws
July 8, 2006Murphy’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 — All great discoveries are made by mistake.
Murphy’s Technology Law #6 — Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
Murphy’s Technology Law #7 — All’s well that ends… period.
Murphy’s Technology Law #8 — A meeting is an event at which minutes are kept and hours are lost.
Murphy’s Technology Law #9 — The first myth of management is that it exists.
Murphy’s Technology Law #10 — A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
Murphy’s Technology Law #11 — New systems generate new problems.
Murphy’s Technology Law #12 — Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
Murphy’s Technology Law #13 — A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make.
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