Murphy's laws about Computers, page 2
134 quotes by Edward A. Murphy about computers
Edward A. Murphy Engineer working on Air Force Project MX981
Any cool program always requires more memory than you have.
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When you finally buy enough memory, you will not have enough disk space.
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Disks are always full. It is futile to try to get more disk space. Data expands to fill any void.
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If a program actually fits in memory and has enough disk space, it is guaranteed to crash.
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If such a program has not crashed yet, it is waiting for a critical moment before it crashes.
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No matter how good of a deal you get on computer components, the price will always drop immediately after the purchase.
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The speed with which components become obsolete is directly proportional to the price of the component.
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Software bugs are impossible to detect by anybody except the end user.
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The maintenance engineer will never have seen a model quite like yours before.
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It is axiomatic that any spares required will have just been discontinued and will be no longer in stock.
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Any VDU, from the cheapest to the most expensive, will protect a twenty cent fuse by blowing first.
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Any manufacturer making his warranties dependent upon the device being earthed will only supply power cabling with two wires.
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If a circuit requires n components, then there will be only n - 1 components in locally-held stocks.
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A failure in a device will never appear until it has passed final inspection.
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A program generator creates programs that are more buggy than the program generator.
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