Wednesday 7 April 2004

Murphy's Law of Combat No. 15

Everything is built by the lowest bidder.

As an aside Murphy's Law is usually given as "Anything that can go wrong, will". The Jargon file says that this, strictly, is Finagle's Law and that Murphy's law is the slightly more specific and verbose "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 was a real person, apparently.

He went on to say some other pithy things. Many of which are worth remembering. Especially "If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid."

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