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tkt8763-01: Fwd: [GCFL] Murphy's Technology Laws

I haven't sent anything in a while, but when I read these, I thought about this class.  Just a little funny to keep us going.

By the way, thanks for all the notes.

Gail Muse


 


 


Murphy's Technology Laws 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Any given program, when running, is obsolete.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.
 
Received from Don Hartin.
 
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