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"Captain Edward A. Murphy, Jr was an engineer with the US Air Force in

Murphy’s Law. "Captain Edward A. Murphy, Jr was an engineer with the US Air Force in 1949 when he created the harness for a rocket-powered sled designed to move faster than a speeding bullet, testing how much acceleration and

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"Captain Edward A. Murphy, Jr was an engineer with the US Air Force in

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  1. Murphy’s Law "Captain Edward A. Murphy, Jr was an engineer with the US Air Force in 1949 when he created the harness for a rocket-powered sled designed to move faster than a speeding bullet, testing how much acceleration and deceleration a human being could tolerate. The test failed and the sled's passenger (Major John Paul Stapp) was temporarily blinded because – as Murphy later discovered - every one of the harness's gauges had been installed backward. "Exasperated, Murphy made a snide comment that if there were two ways to do something and one could result in catastrophe, someone would invariably choose to do it the catastrophic way. His colleagues overheard him and began repeating the adage. Before long, 'Murphy's Law' caught on and became widely quoted. It was added to Webster's Dictionary in 1958." Sources: Biography magazine, July 2003, p. 23; Economist, Oct 21st 2004 E.Paterno

  2. If anything can go wrong, it will E.Paterno

  3. If there is a possibility of several things to go wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the first one to go wrong E.Paterno

  4. If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway E.Paterno

  5. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for,will promptly develop E.Paterno

  6. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse E.Paterno

  7. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something E.Paterno

  8. If something works the first time, then something must be wrong E.Paterno

  9. If something is to go wrong, it will at the wrong time E.Paterno

  10. Things get worse under pressure E.Paterno

  11. Smile tomorrow will be worse E.Paterno

  12. No one is listening until you make a mistake E.Paterno

  13. Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value E.Paterno

  14. Everything goes wrong all at once E.Paterno

  15. In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right ... something is wrong E.Paterno

  16. Anything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong E.Paterno

  17. Nothing is as easy as it looks E.Paterno

  18. Everything takes longer than you think E.Paterno

  19. Whenever you set out to do something, something else will need to be done first E.Paterno

  20. Every solution breeds new problems E.Paterno

  21. Things will work well until such time when you really need them to work E.Paterno

  22. Things will break when least expected E.Paterno

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