Murphy's Law
Source status: Attributed to Ryan Sylvester
The chances of a program doing what it's supposed to do are inversely proportional to the number of lines of code used to write it. Sent by Ryan Sylvester.
- Ryan Sylvester
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This law belongs with Murphy's Computer Laws, where small assumptions, timing, and system complexity tend to turn into memorable failures.
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