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Author Topic: Murphy's Laws Regarding Technology.  (Read 2807 times)

Offline Uncle Russ

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Murphy's Laws Regarding Technology.
« on: May 26, 2018, 09:58:38 PM »
Murphy's Laws of Technology...............
 
Murphy'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: An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he/she knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Murphy's Technology Law #6: Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he'll believe you.
Tell the same man a bench has wet paint on it, and he'll have to touch it to be sure.

Murphy's Technology Law #7: All really great discoveries are made by mistake.

Murphy's Technology Law #8: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

Murphy's Technology Law #9: All's well that ends....period.

Murphy's Technology Law #10: A meeting is an event at which minutes are kept and hours are lost.

Murphy's Technology Law #11: The first myth of management is that it exists.

Murphy's Technology Law #12: A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Murphy's Technology Law #13: New systems generate new problems, along with new idiots.

Murphy's Technology Law #14: To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

Murphy's Technology Law #15: We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Murphy's Technology Law #16: Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

Murphy's Technology Law #17: A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds, as 20 men working 20 years can make.


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Re: Murphy's Laws Ewgarding Technology.
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2018, 10:47:08 PM »
There is a lot of brilliance in that.
Thanks Russ.
I needed that.
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Offline Ohio Joe

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Re: Murphy's Laws Ewgarding Technology.
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2018, 11:07:14 PM »
There is a lot of brilliance in that.
Thanks Russ.
I needed that.
John

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Unfortunately I'm still stuck on number 1....  :Doh! :bl th up
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Re: Murphy's Laws Ewgarding Technology.
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2018, 07:08:08 AM »
Joe, I think the train went thata way.
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Re: Murphy's Laws Ewgarding Technology.
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2018, 08:16:48 AM »
I've got'a plan Hank to figure out which way that train was a'going.

I'm gonna put a penny on the tracks and whichever side is flattened first,,, I'll know...  :P :Doh! :lol sign
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Offline Winter Hawk

Re: Murphy's Laws Ewgarding Technology.
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2018, 10:42:52 PM »
Thank you, my favorite Uncle.  There is a LOT of truth in that list!

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