Murphy's Law

[Sparkologist]

Murphy's Law. We've all experienced it. Usually when something goes tits-up, or other similar unfortunate moments.

Here is a list of things that are likely to go pear-shaped given the opportunity ...

1. A transistor protected by a fast-blowing fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first.
2. The chances that bread will fall to the floor butter side down are directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
3. Whenever anything needs to be done, there is always something else that must be done beforehand. Before that, something else will need to be done, and before that......
4. If anything could have chosen a worse time to go wrong then it would have gone wrong then.
5. Constants aren't, variables won't.
6. You will not be interrupted until you start to do something (Or, if you could have been interrupted at a worse moment then you would have been interrupted then).
7. Just when things couldn't possibly get worse they suddenly do.
8. The phone call you have been waiting in all day for will come when you go out for 2 minutes just to put the rubbish out.
9. The probability of making the wrong decision is directly proportional to the length of time taken to make it.
10. The length of time taken by a committee to reach a decision is directly proportional to the number of people on it raised to the power of itself.
11. When you say that something is too good to be true, it is.
12. Do it the quick way. Then you get to rewrite it in a year's time.
13. Hofstadter's Law: It will always take longer than you expect, even if you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
14. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
15. Everything takes longer than you think. See Hofstadter's Law.
16. If anything does go wrong, there will always be someone who knew it would.
17. 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.
18. If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
19. 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.
20. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
21. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
22. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
23. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
24. Every solution breeds new problems.
25. Two wrongs are only the beginning.
26. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
27. To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
28. Exceptions prove the rule ... and wreck the budget.
29. Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
30. If at first you don't succeed, you're fired.
31. If you didn't think it went wrong, it will be too late when you discover otherwise.
32. It will never go wrong when you're trying to make it go wrong. Or, it will go wrong at the most unexpected and undesirable moment.
33. Just when it couldn't possibly go wrong, it goes wrong.
34. It will go wrong when you least expect it to.
35. If you put a spoonful of wine into a barrel of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage into a barrel of wine, you get sewage...