• Murphy's Technology Law #1:
  
  You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
• Murphy's Technology Law #2:
  
  Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with
  confidence.
• Murphy's Technology Law #3:
  
  Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.
• Murphy's Technology Law #4:
  
  If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the
  first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
• Murphy's Technology Law #5:
  
  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 #6:
  
  Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, 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 #7:
  
  All great discoveries are made by mistake.
• Murphy's Technology Law #8:
  
  Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
• Murphy's Technology Law #9:
  
  All's well that ends... period.
• Murphy's Technology Law #10:
  
  A meeting is an event at which minutes are kept and hours are lost.
• Murphy's Technology Law #11:
  
  The first myth of management is that it exists.
• Murphy's Technology Law #12:
  
  A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
• Murphy's Technology Law #13:
  
  New systems generate new problems.
• Murphy's Technology Law #14:
  
  To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
• Murphy's Technology Law #15:
  
  We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
• Murphy's Technology Law #16:
  
  Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
• Murphy's Technology Law #17:
  
  A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years
  make.