Source status: Attributed to Luciano Quinones
If a valuable falls in a hard-to-reach place at a distance shorter than the tip of your finger, you'll push it to that unreachable distance as soon as you try to reach it.
- Luciano Quinones
This law belongs with Murphy's Laws, where small assumptions, timing, and system complexity tend to turn into memorable failures.
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