Corollary
Source status: Attributed to Peter
It is never in the last place you look. It is in the first place you look, but it is never discovered on the first attempt.
- Peter
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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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