Murphy's Law
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Any good idea you ever had will just be attributed to someone else once you tell someone about it.
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Any good idea you ever had will just be attributed to someone else once you tell someone about it.
This law belongs with Murphy's Miscellaneous Laws, where small assumptions, timing, and system complexity tend to turn into memorable failures.
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