1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
2. Everything takes longer than you think.
3. If there is possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.(Other Authors and Sources)
Murphy’s Law: Corollaries
In Arthur Bloch, Murphy's Law: And Other Reasons Why Things Go gnorW, "Murphyology" (1979). See Murphy's Law.
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misjudgment
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If there is a wrong thing to do, it will be done, infallibly. One has come to believe in that as if it were a law of nature.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Diary Entry (1941-05-18), “First War-Time Diary”
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In context, Orwell is complaining about what he considers squandered opportunities by Britain to occupy Vichy French territories, such as Syria, before Germany could make use of them.
See Murphy's Law.
The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. As the man looks back to the days of his childhood and his youth, and recalls to his mind the strange notions and false opinions that swayed his actions at that time, that he may wonder at them; so should society, for its edification, look back to the opinions which governed the ages fled. He is but a superficial thinker who would despise and refuse to hear of them merely because they are absurd. No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action; and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity.
Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The Alchymists” (1841)
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In youth our judgments are obscured by our hopes; in age, by our regrets.
Paul Eldridge (1888-1982) American educator, novelist, poet
Maxims for a Modern Man, #144 (1965)
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