Re: OT: Murphy's Law (was Re: Strip SIG on reply)
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Allister MacLeod wrote:
> 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.
I once saw a sign (on someone's office wall), which read
It is impossible to make things foolproof
because fools are so ingenious.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
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