Murphy's Law

Source status: Attributed to Ray Geist

The value of any job task is inversely proportional to its deadline.

- Ray Geist

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This law belongs with Murphy's Commerce Laws, where small assumptions, timing, and system complexity tend to turn into memorable failures.

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