something which i came across and caught my attention during the AVLC 1-day workshop.

MURPHY'S LAW.

Murphy's law broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance.

The spirit of this law embodies the the principle of defensive design - anticipating the mistakes the end-user is likely to make.

As for the history and origin of the law, you can go find out yourself. =P

Variations and Corollaries (laugh your ass off over it XD):
- Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.
- Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way.
- If there's more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence, then somebody will do it that way.
- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
- 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.
- Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
- In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right, something is wrong.
- Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
- When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer. Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.
- Every solution breeds new problems.
Life's Like That...
- After you bought a replacement for something you've lost and searched for everywhere, you'll find the original.
- You'll find something in the first place you look, but never discovered on the first attempt.
- No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.
- The other line always moves faster.
- Anything dropped in the bathroom will fall in the toilet (or the sink).
- For any given software, the moment you manage to master it, a new version of that software appears on the market.
- Any time you put an item in a "safe place", it will never be seen again.
- You click on the send button, just when your eyes see the mistake on the email.
- You are only very busy when your boss is not at the office.
Gravitation...
- A falling object will always land where it can do the most damage.
- A shatterproof object will always fall on the only surface hard enough to crack or break it.
- A paint drip will always find the hole in the newspaper and land on the carpet underneath (and will not be discovered until it has dried).
- A dropped power tool will always land on the concrete instead of the soft ground (if outdoors) or the carpet (if indoors) - unless it is running, in which case it will fall on something it can damage (like your foot).
- A valuable dropped item will always fall into an inaccessible place (a diamond ring down the drain, for example) - or into the garbage disposal while it is running.
- The Murphy Philosophy: Smile... tomorrow will be worse.
- Murphy's Constant: Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
well there's like a whole long list that never ends, but i'll stop here.


all information taken from HERE, HERE and HERE. you can read more from those sites. =)


i'll end off with something for you to think about. XD
Silverman's Paradox: If Murphy's law can go wrong, it will.


p.s. Murphy's Law was used to bring out the importance of RAMS (Risk Assessment Management System)