Murphy's Law
Source status: Attributed to John Wilson
If you plan for something to go wrong, and it doesn't go bad, it would have been ultimately profitable for it to go wrong. Sent by John Wilson.
- John Wilson
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This law belongs with Murphy's Laws, where small assumptions, timing, and system complexity tend to turn into memorable failures.
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