E.Paterno "Captain Edward A. Murphy, Jr was an engineer with the US Air Force in 1949 when he created the harness for a rocket-powered sled designed to move faster than a speeding bullet, testing how much acceleration and deceleration a human being could tolerate. The test failed and the sled's passenger (Major John Paul Stapp) was temporarily blinded because – as Murphy later discovered - every one of the harness's gauges had been installed backward. "Exasperated, Murphy made a snide comment that if there were two ways to do something and one could result in catastrophe, someone would invariably choose to do it the catastrophic way. His colleagues overheard him and began repeating the adage. Before long, 'Murphy's Law' caught on and became widely quoted. It was added to Webster's Dictionary in 1958." Sources: Biography magazine, July 2003, p. 23; Economist, Oct 21st 2004 Biography Murphy’s Law

E.Paterno If anything can go wrong, it will

E.Paterno If there is a possibility of several things to go wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the first one to go wrong

E.Paterno If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway

E.Paterno If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for,will promptly develop

E.Paterno Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse

E.Paterno If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something

E.Paterno If something works the first time, then something must be wrong

E.Paterno If something is to go wrong, it will at the wrong time

E.Paterno Things get worse under pressure

E.Paterno Smile tomorrow will be worse

E.Paterno No one is listening until you make a mistake

E.Paterno Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value

E.Paterno Everything goes wrong all at once

E.Paterno In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right... something is wrong

E.Paterno Anything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong

E.Paterno Nothing is as easy as it looks

E.Paterno Everything takes longer than you think

E.Paterno Whenever you set out to do something, something else will need to be done first

E.Paterno Every solution breeds new problems

E.Paterno Things will work well until such time when you really need them to work

E.Paterno Things will break when least expected