A “debugged” program that crashes will wipe out source files on storage devices when there is the least available backup.
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Murphy's laws, page 17
1791 quotes by Edward A. Murphy
Edward A. Murphy - engineer working on Air Force Project MX981
Was born on 11 jan 1918.
Died on 17 jul 1990, at 72 years old.
Died on 17 jul 1990, at 72 years old.
Origin country: United States
A hardware failure will cause system software to crash, and the customer engineer will blame the programmer.
Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, customers, failure
A system software crash will cause hardware to act strangely and the programmers will blame the customer engineer.
Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, customers
Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, error, infinite
Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers can not write in English.
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The documented interfaces between standard software modules will have undocumented quirks.
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The probability of a hardware failure disappearing is inversely proportional to the distance between the computer and the customer engineer.
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Any cool program always requires more memory than you have.
Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, memory
When you finally buy enough memory, you will not have enough disk space.
Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, univers, commerce, memory
Disks are always full. It is futile to try to get more disk space. Data expands to fill any void.
Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, univers
If a program actually fits in memory and has enough disk space, it is guaranteed to crash.
Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, univers, memory
If such a program has not crashed yet, it is waiting for a critical moment before it crashes.
Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, moment
No matter how good of a deal you get on computer components, the price will always drop immediately after the purchase.
Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, good, good luck
The speed with which components become obsolete is directly proportional to the price of the component.
Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, speed
Software bugs are impossible to detect by anybody except the end user.
Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, impossible, end
The maintenance engineer will never have seen a model quite like yours before.
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