Murphy's Law

Source status: Attributed to Mark Peacock

The solution is not in the instruction booklet when something goes wrong, but someone else always does.

- Mark Peacock

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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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