MURPHY’S LAWS

[Rufus T. Firefly]

MURPHY’S LAWS
Murphy’s First Law:
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Murphy’s Second Law:
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Murphy’s Third Law:
Everything takes longer than you think it will.
Murphy’s Fourth Law:
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
Corollary to Murphy’s Fourth Law:
If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
Murphy’s Fifth Law:
If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
Murphy’s Sixth Law:
If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
Murphy’s Seventh Law:
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
Murphy’s Eighth Law:
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Murphy’s Ninth Law:
Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
Murphy’s Tenth Law:
Mother Nature is a bitch.
Murphy’s Eleventh Law:
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
Murphy’s Twelfth Law:
Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
Murphy’s Thirteenth Law:
Every solution breeds new problems.
Murphy’s Fourteenth Law:
If anything can’t go wrong on its own, someone will make it go wrong.

[rex desilets]

My 50+ years of work proved to me that all the laws are empirically correct.
I might add: Murphy was an optimist.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yet...
Murph's one and only "axiom" :
Do what you can and then pray God will give you the power to do what you cannot.
(Actually said by St. Augustine [no slouch in the personal philosophies department] .)
It's been workin' for me.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Murphy was an optimist.

Yup!

[Roy]

I was watching something about a genetic cure for sickle cell anemia, when I learned that the mutation developed to help people resist Malaria. Even nature has to contend with unintended consequences.

[Mitch]

Murphy was an optimist.

That's Swartz's Law. Mitchell's Law is whenever something has to go wrong, I'll get Double Murphy!