Corollary of Law of Conservation of Filth For something to get clean, something else must get dirty.

Corollary

Source status: Attributed to Scott Tietjen

It is possible for everything to get dirty and nothing to get clean.

- Scott Tietjen

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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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