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OT: Murphy's Law (was Re: Strip SIG on reply)



On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:07:58AM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> find more annoyance than use, and any scheme that's capable of failing
> will always fail exactly when you need it to work right, as the sage
> Murphy pointed out ages ago.

I believe the butt of Murphy's pronouncement was users, rather than
implementers.  However, it was an admonishment to implementers to make
things so that it's as hard as possible for users to screw up.

Ciao,
 Allister

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