"IF ANYTHING CAN GO WRONG, IT WILL."

-- The Murphy Law

Wonder how many people heard about this? The fatalistic corollary that sounds downright outlandish but TRUE?

There are various versions of it.. such as...

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
(Nod. Nod.)

Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.
Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

On Work... (Nice ones... relevant to some of you?)

It doesn't matter what you do, it only matters what you say you've done and what you say you're going to do.
(In another word, just do your work when you are under surveillance?)

The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.
(Erm.. self-explanatory.)

Mother said there would be days like this, but she never said there would be so many.

Everything can be filed under "miscellaneous".
(That's the way. I did just that with my hodgepodge of pictures taken at various occasions... All I did was... tapped the mouse.. Click "Create new > Folder > Named: Miscellaneous"... There! Perfect way to organize a mess. **sense of achievement**)


Well... just found it interesting. How does a statement so queer, with so many derivations become a SCIENTIFIC axiom worth considering by engineers at work?


Initially, I thought it is just a cynical verdict to justify anything bad going on around the world.

Then, it strikes me...

It is not pessimism that resulted in its birth. Rather, it might be optimism at work --
Consider the "what-ifs". Things can always go wrong. Don't be disappointed by it.
In fact... maybe it's the challenge that are posed by things which can go wrong that keep us going in our everyday life.

Just imagine... without any Gordian knots to untie, we will most probably turn senile.. say.. by 30? We just need problems, don't we?

Er.. though I doubt the other versions hold the same implication.. ha...