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Sent:   Sunday, December 19, 1999 2:35 PM
Subject:        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Any given program, when running, is obsolete.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.