> > Somewhere in Murphy's Law it states that if paint is going to run, it will do so on the most visible part of the painted surface.
> >
> > I painted some scooter wheels today and only got one run, but it proved that Murphy was, as usual, right.
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> According to what I've heard, Murphy's law is greatly misunderstood.
> People think Murphy's law says "things always go wrong". That is not what it says at all. Murphy's law measures human stupidity, not bad luck or general "SNAFU"-ness.
> The original Murphy's law (my paraphrasing):
> "If there are two ways to install a component, and only one of them is the right way, sooner or later someone will come and install it in the wrong way."
> This says that someone is bound to be stupid enough to misunderstand or ignore the instructions and do it the wrong way. The moral of the story: don't tell people not to do things wrong. Make it impossible for them to do things wrong, whether they know how to do them or not.

I always thought Murphy's Law was simply "Anything than can go wrong, will go wrong."

Mich-am I wrong?-ael