Wednesday, 7 November 2007

Murphy's Technology Laws

We've all heard of Murphys Law, that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance, but how many of you have heard of Murphy's Technology Laws?

Heres a few :
  • Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
  • New systems generate new problems.
  • The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.
  • If you can't understand it, it must be intuitively obvious.
  • Standard parts are not.
  • Never trust modern technology, trust it only when it is old technology.
  • Everything is always in the least practical unit; for example velocity is measured in furlongs per fortnight.
  • Any tool dropped will fall where it will cause the most damage.
  • The repairman will have never seen a model quite like yours before.
Anyone else got any good ones?

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