All people in IT know Murphy's Law. For
those who aren't in IT: Murphy's Law tells that if anything can go wrong, it will go
wrong, with the most serious consequences and when least expected. His law can also be
reversed: according to this law you don't have to expect things will happen on Friday
13th. Unless of course, if you're prepared for nothing to go wrong, it just might...
Murphy's Law can be met in many forms. Be prepared for the worst:
| 1. |
If you finally see light at the end of the tunnel, it will be the
headlights of a train coming towards you. |
| 2. |
Keep anything long enough and you can throw it away. Throw it away and you
need it the next day. |
| 3. |
The test of a product won't be published until a week after you bought it.
Besides: no matter how many shops you went in, after you bought something you will find it
always cheaper in the next shop. |
| 4. |
One plus one is rarely two, and when it is, you can't prove it. |
| 5. |
The Intensive Care is always at the other end of the hospital. |
| 6. |
When you hit two keys together, the unwanted one will appear on your
screen. |
| 7. |
If your train is on time, your connection won't. If your train is late,
your connection will be on time. |
| 8. |
A new tie is always attracted by the soup of the day. |
| 9. |
You never know how deep the water is, until you get in. |
| 10. |
Children never spoil their milk on a dirty floor. |
| 11. |
Nothing can be sure, except that anything is possible. |
| 12. |
Eighty percent of your exam will be about that one lesson you missed, in
which the book was used that you didn't read. |
| 13. |
Anything confidential will be left in the Xerox machine. |
| 14. |
If only two programs on TV are worth watching, they will be broadcasted on
the same time. |
| 15. |
The more your line is tied up, the more fish your neighbors will catch. |
| 16. |
The other lane is always faster. |
| 17. |
The telephone tends to go, just when you're outside looking for your keys. |
| 18. |
Pimples won't come earlier than half an hour before your first date. |
| 19. |
Important papers move themselves from places where you left them to places
where you can't find them. |
| 20. |
In a software update old errors are replaced by new ones. |
| 21. |
If your program is idiot-proof, they'll find a better idiot. |
| 22. |
Pinfeed paper is stronger at the pinfeed than in the middle. |
| 23. |
A toothache always starts at Saturday evening. |
| 24. |
In the cinema the people that sit far away from the path, will always
arrive the last. |
| 25. |
A shortcut is the longest distance between two points. |
