| - Is the statement of Murphy's Law valid? It is found that anything that can go wrong at sea generally does go wrong sooner or later, so it is not to be wondered that owners prefer the safe to the scientific | Protagonist Joseph Cooper says to his daughter, named Murphy, that "A Murphy's law doesn't mean that something bad will happen |
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| It states that things will go wrong when Mr | will ensure that those ones are remembered and the many times Murphy's law was not true are forgotten |
Association with Murphy [ ] Differing recollections years later by various participants make it impossible to pinpoint who first coined the saying Murphy's law.
9| George Nichols, another engineer who was present, recalled in an interview that Murphy blamed the failure on his assistant after the failed test, saying, "If that guy has any way of making a mistake, he will | |
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| Patterson, The Entropy Vector: Connecting Science and Business, p134, World Scientific, 2004, | Genetic Psychology Monographs volume 43, page 204• Ann Landers May 9, 1978 , "Mrs |
Chairman was quoted in the on February 12, 1955, saying "I hope it will be known as Strauss' law.
25| The law's name supposedly stems from an attempt to use new measurement devices developed by | I always liked 'Murphy's law' |
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| One is sour, the other an affirmation of the predictable being surmountable, usually by sufficient planning and redundancy | Frustration with a strap which was malfunctioning due to an error in wiring the caused him to remark — "If there is any way to do it wrong, he will" — referring to the technician who had wired the bridges at the Lab |
The next citations are not found until 1955, when the May—June issue of Aviation Mechanics Bulletin included the line "Murphy's law: If an aircraft part can be installed incorrectly, someone will install it that way", and Lloyd Mallan's book, Men, Rockets and Space Rats, referred to: "Colonel Stapp's favorite takeoff on sober scientific laws—Murphy's law, Stapp calls it—'Everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong'.