It is simple to make something complex, and complex to make it simple.
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Murphy's laws about Technology
37 quotes by Edward A. Murphy about technology
Edward A. Murphy Engineer working on Air Force Project MX981
Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.
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Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
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A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
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A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.
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We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
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Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book.
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The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.
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After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.
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Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.
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Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner.
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