Best Murphy's Laws
The best Murphy's Laws are short, specific, and painfully reusable. They name a failure pattern clearly enough that people recognize it before the punchline lands.
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- If anything can go wrong, it will.
- The backup you need most is the one you forgot to test.
- The task that looks simple is hiding the missing requirement.
Why these work
Each law captures a repeatable situation, not a one-time accident. That makes it useful for planning, debugging, and explaining why defensive design matters.