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Multi-million pound technology is worthless in the hands of morons.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology

The boss is always right.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, heads, rightness

The chance a copy machine will brake down is proportional to the importance of the material that needs to be copied and inversely proportional to the amount of time till the material will be needed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, chance, time

No matter how clever and complete your research is, there is always someone who knows more.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, intelligence, research

The less intelligent the idea, and the person stating it, the more likely it will be funded.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, idea, people

The more knowledge you gained, the less certain you are of it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, knowledge, contentment

The repairman fixes your machine to break down the next day and charges for a new machine.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, day

The repairman will have never seen a model quite like yours before.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology

If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

Any given program will expand to fill all the available memory.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, memory

The value of a program is inversely proportional to the weight of its output.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, value

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, complexity

Every non-trivial program has at least one bug .

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

Bugs will appear in one part of a working program when another “unrelated” part is modified.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

The subtlest bugs cause the greatest damage and problems.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, problems

A “debugged” program that crashes will wipe out source files on storage devices when there is the least available backup.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

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

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers