Investment in software reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors.
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Murphy's laws about Computers, page 7
134 quotes by Edward A. Murphy about computers
Computer sadism: When the computer causes physical or mental damage to a person and can't receive such a return favor due to management rules.
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Computer masochism: When a computer takes all the abuse you think you can give it and continues working as it should.
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The sound of grinding metal or the sight of smoke coming from a case is a warning that you are trying to do too much with too little.
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The survivability of a system is directly proportional to the price of the cooling system applied to it and inversely proportional to the amount of use it sees.
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Antivirus systems only effectively work on a virus after given virus has passed its prime.
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The most frightening of viruses is the virus you do not know is already there.
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The amount of damage that a string of code can do is inversely proportional to the length of the string.
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You only receive instant messaging, when working on a project that's due instantly.
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When designing a program to handle all possible dumb errors, nature creates a dumber user.
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Just when you have no cash, you are in great pain and got to the bank to find the bank computers offline.
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All computers are based against cowboys and will always dump whatever it was you were saving for CAS work; Bill designed them that way.
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Whenever you need a crucial file from the server, the network will be down.
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