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 him a bench has wet paint on it, and he'll have to
touch to be sure.
Murphy's Technology Law #7:
All 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.
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Any given program, when running, is obsolete.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 make.
Larry Macy
78 Midget
Keep your top down and your chin up.
Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a
question and you're a fool for the rest of your life.
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