Monday, August 04, 2003

Murphy Was Right; Even Though He Didn't Say It

What to know something? Murphy's Law is not "Anything that can go wrong, will." The actual quote by McDonnell-Douglas' quality-control engineer Edward A. Murphy, Jr was,

"If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it."

Murphy is misquoted and given credit for a reference made by something called Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives.

Go figure.