MURPHY'S LAWS OF TECHNOLOGY

Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.

The attention span of a computer is only as long as it electrical cord.

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you.
Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.

Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.

Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

All's well that ends.

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

The first myth of management is that it exists.

A failure will not appear till the project has passed final inspection.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.

Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years.

The faster a computer is, the faster it will reach a crashed state.

Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's
work.

The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for
the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

To spot the expert: pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest
and cost the most.

Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts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.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.

If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the
page number.

All things are possible - except skiing through a revolving door.

If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist.

If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.