Murphy's Law

Murphy's Law: If something can go wrong, it will go wrong.

Here are a few variations:

• A major problem always happens ten minutes before it's time to go home.
• Whenever you set out to do something, something else must always be done first.
• The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance.
• Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
• A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
• The other line always moves faster.
• Leftovers always expand to fill all available containers plus one.
• Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.

Here is Wikipedia's take on Murphy's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law (If this link doesn't work it would be embarassing for me, necessarily invoking Murphy's Law, which means that, of course, the link I provided will not work. But then again, now that I have said all that, if the link does work, then it makes a fool out of me for having said that the link won't work. So according to Murphy's Law the link I provided will work. In other words, if the link works or if it doesn't work, Murphy's Law ensures that I am both a winner and a loser - let's call it even, then, shall we?)