Mr Murphy and me

You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.


Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

Any given program, when running, is obsolete.


Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's work.



Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book.

The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.