Murphy's law
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Murphy's law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." In some formulations, it is extended to "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time."
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See also
- Defensive design - Practice of planning for contingencies in the design stage of a project
- Finagle's law
- Hanlon's razor
- Hindsight bias
- Hofstadter's law
- Totalitarian principle
- Infinite monkey theorem
- Jinx
- Laws of infernal dynamics
- List of eponymous laws
- Milo Murphy's Law
- Muphry's law
- Parkinson's law
- Pessimism
- Precautionary principle
- Segal's law
- Shit happens
- SNAFU
- Sod's law
- Unintended consequences
- Worst-case scenario
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