Source status: Attributed to Timothy Boilard
The chance a copy machine will break down is proportional to the importance of the material that needs to be copied and inversely proportional to the amount of time till the material will be required.
- Timothy Boilard
This law belongs with Murphy's Technology Laws, where small assumptions, timing, and system complexity tend to turn into memorable failures.
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