Jeez, buddy — use a tissue!

No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.

If anything can go wrong it will.

Corollaries

1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.

2. Everything takes longer than you think it will.

3. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one that will go wrong.

4. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, than a fifth way will promptly develop.

5. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

6. Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

7. Every solution breeds new problems.

8. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

9. Mother Nature is a bitch

Source: Murphy’s Law 26th Anniversary Edition

1. You can’t win.

2. You can’t break even.

3. You can’t leave the game.

How apt…

No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.