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Murphy was supposedly the chief engineer on a ship in wartime. His most famous law is:

If something can go wrong, it will

A couple of others:

If it ain't broke, don't fix it

Whatever you want to do, there's always something else you have to do first
 
Clarke's three laws:

  1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
  2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
  3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
 
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===== Murphy's Technology Laws =====

• You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.

• Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

• The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.

• An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

• 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.

• To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

• We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.

• Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's work.

• Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

• All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

• The only perfect science is hind-sight.

• Work smarder and not harder and be careful of yor speling.

• When all else fails, read the instructions.

• The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management.
 
Computers speed up routine tasks, but now they take longer.
 
Truth does not pay any homage to any society, ancient and modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die. That society is the greatest, where the highest truths become practical. That is my opinion; and if society is not fit for the highest truths, make it so; and the sooner, the better.

Swami Vivekananda
 
“Truth is a naked lady, and if by accident she is drawn up from the bottom of the sea, it behooves a gentleman either to give her a print petticoat or to turn his back and vow that he did not see”.
-Rudyard Kipling
 
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