Murphy's Technology Law #1:
      The first myth of management is that it exists.

      Murphy's Technology Law #2:
      A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final
      inspection.

      Murphy's Technology Law #3:
      New systems generate new problems.

      Murphy's Technology Law #4:
      To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a
      computer.

      Murphy's Technology Law #5:
      We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

      Murphy's Technology Law #6:
      Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

      Murphy's Technology Law #7:
      A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men
      working 20 years make.

      Murphy's Technology Law #8:
      Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong
      conclusion with confidence.

      Murphy's Technology Law #9:
      Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not
      understand.

      Murphy's Technology Law #10:
      If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote
      programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would
      destroy civilization.


      Murphy's Technology Law #11:
      You can never tell which way the train went by looking at
      the track.

      Murphy's Technology Law #12:
      An expert is one who knows more and more about less and
      less until he/she knows absolutely everything about
      nothing.

      Murphy's Technology Law #13:
      Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the galaxy, and
      he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it,
      and he'll have to touch to be sure.

      Murphy's Technology Law #14:
      All great discoveries are made by mistake.

      Murphy's Technology Law #15:
      Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

      Murphy's Technology Law #16:
      All's well that ends . . . period.

      Murphy's Technology Law #17:
      Murphy was an optimist.