All the laws and corollaries of Murphy on tech and project management in one place.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading. — Murphy’s technology laws.
A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection. – Murphy’s law on agile project management.
The first myth of management is that it exists. – Murphy’s law on project management.
Technology is dominated by those who manage what they don’t understand: if builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. — Murphy’s law on tech.
Tell people there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and they’ll believe you. Tell them a bench has wet paint on it, and they’ll have to touch to be sure. — Murphy’s law on project management.
Build a system that even a fool can use and only the fool will use it. — Murphy’s law on management.
Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way. — Murphy’s laws on PM.
All’s well that ends. — Murphy’s laws on project management.
Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable. — Murphy’s laws on computer science.
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. — Murphy’s laws on tech and science.
Give all orders verbally. Never write anything down that might go into a “Pearl Harbor File.” — Murphy’s laws on IT.
When all else fails, read the instructions. — Murphy’s laws on technology and science.
Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. — Murphy’s laws on technology and science.
To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most. — Murphy’s laws on technology and science.
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. — Murphy’s laws on technology.
In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totaled correctly after 4:30 p.m. on Friday. The correct total will become self-evident at 8:15 a.m. on Monday.
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable and three parts which are still under development. — Murphy’s laws on technology.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Murphy’s laws on technology.
When all else fails, read the instructions. — Murphy’s laws on technology.
Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition. – Murphy’s laws on technology.
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence (Murphy’s technology laws).
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