Terrible Truths (and other principles of disaster)
Murphy's First Law: Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Murphy's Second Law: Everything takes longer than you think.
Murphy's Third Law: In any field of scientific endeavor, anything
that can go wrong will go wrong.
Murphy's Fourth Law: If there is a possibility of several things
going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the
one to go wrong.
Murphy's Fifth Law: If anything just cannot go wrong, it will
anyway.
Murphy's Sixth Law: If you perceive that there are four possible
ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then
a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
Murphy's Seventh Law: Left to themselves, things tend to go from
bad to worse.
Murphy's Eighth Law: If everything seems to be going well, you
have obviously overlooked something.
Murphy's Ninth Law: Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
Murphy's Tenth Law: Mother Nature is a bitch.
Murphy's Eleventh Law: It is impossible to make anything
foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.