"If there's more than one way to do a job and one of those ways will end in disaster, then somebody will do it that way."

"If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it tha…"

"Anything That Can Possibly Go Wrong, Does"

"Colonel Stapp's favorite takeoff on sober scientific laws — Murphy's Law, Stapp calls it — 'Everything that can possi…"

"Murphy's Quantum Law: Anything that can, could have, or will go wrong, is going wrong, all at once."

"With diligent effort he has established that there is no statistical basis for Murphy’s Law. He has also established …"

"If you enjoy watching birds, you stand in good company. There are, in the estimate of the National Survey on Recreati…"

"Birds become more and more fascinating, not less, the more you watch them."

"It is a fun exercise among s to try to pinpoint a childhood moment when they deviated from the path of “ordinary” peo…"

"But since it was birders he was dealing with, there wasn’t any harm just letting us in on the honor system. There was…"