Murphy's Law (Idiom)

MURPHY'S LAW (Idiom)

Murphy's Law may have originated in the scientific or engineering community (but no one knows who "Murphy" was). It is usually stated:

Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

Some call this "Murphy's First Law" because there are many (maybe hundreds of) corollaries. Here are a few:

• Nothing is as easy as it looks.
• Everything takes longer than you think it will.
• If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
• Every solution breeds new problems.
• If your project doesn't work, look for the part you didn't think was important.
• The ideal resume will turn up one day after the position is filled.
• No matter how good a bargain you get, the price will drop after you buy it.
• A spoon of wine in a barrel of sewage makes sewage. A spoon of sewage in a barrel of wine makes sewage.

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