Good Old Murphy's Law

It’s been a pretty good week all in all. I am not sure about you but often when things are going so well it tends to make one hesitate and think if there might be something that may go wrong. It's the nature of the beast as we all do have concerns. 

One of Murphy’s Laws states, “If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something”. He also said, “In nature, nothing is ever right. Well the way I see it if things seem and feel to be going well they are going well mind you I can understand what he is saying with nature and it goes along with the imperfections that do exist within life.

Therefore, if everything is going right, something is wrong”. Murphy’s most famous Law of course is, “If anything can go wrong, it will”. Well it's obvious that Murphy was not one that was inspired. If everything is going alright it's rather simple --------------- it's really going right. Maybe there is something I am missing here but that is the manner in which I thunk in the past and think now.

 

He also said, “If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway”. Another inspirational moment, I guess.

Murphy is also credited with some straight forward sayings, such as,” 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”. Well maybe just maybe even Murphy had to look into the mirror now and then and come to terms with some things. But hey shhh as I didn't say anything!  
He also is the one who apparently came up with these truisms such as, "He who laughs last, thinks slowest”. There is something I am missing here without any doubts as I laugh but some jokes are not that funny and then there are some that are. 

Other quotes by Murphy include:

“The other line always moves faster”.

“Having the right of way won’t make you any less dead”.

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

“Just because you CAN do something doesn't’t mean you should”.

And one of my favourites,“You will always find something in the last place you look”.

Ironically Murphy was a Captain Edward A. Murphy an air force engineer who worked at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949. His main project was in studying  sudden human deceleration a person can stand for the Air Force. It's ironic as during his rocket sled experiments there were 16 accelerometers mounted to a human subject's body to measure impact during a crash. An accelerometer is a device that measures proper acceleration relative to freefall.

Well, I kind of understand the concept of what goes up must go down due
to gravity.

But then again that was one concept that Russian chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev was trying to come to terms with. When it was discovering that a technician had installed all 16 incorrectly, Murphy was a perfectionist and was tremendously angered and he uttered with regards to the malfunction of another by saying, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it." This very comment was later quoted at a press conference as so many found it to be something of significance. I am sure Murphy was just just doing his own thing and thought of it as just a term he used, nothing more nothing less.  But then thereafter came about a generic form of the law as they call it which quickly spread around so fast that it came to be what we know now as ---------------------------->   Murphy's Law.

Yet, Captain Murphy was merely a man. Within one phrase while working there came to be Murphy's Law.