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high speed rocket experiments. He later on resigned from
the army and continued his work on high speed rockets.
During the 1960’s he worked on improving the safety
systems of aircrafts and worked on pilot safety. He passed
away at the age of 72 in 17 July 1990.
As we now know the foundation of these 19 crucial
statements lies in an expensive experiment in which the
U.S Air Force tried to find out how much pressure a human
body could withstand. In 1949 an engineer working
with Murphy misplaced 16 sensors on the subject,
therefore the experiment was a failure. After this incident
Murphy made a statement “If that guy has any way of
making mistake, he will.”. Later on, this statement was
paraphrased to “If it can happen, it will happen.” With the
introduction of the first rule Dr John Stapp a U.S Air Force
colonel coined this phrase and called it “Murphy’s Law”
These are some of the other Murphy’s Laws:
2.” If there is a possibility of something going wrong, it will
go wrong in the worst way possible.”
3.” Even if you circumvent these possibilities, another
Murphy’s possibility will promptly develop.”
4.” If everything seems to be going well, you have

Law obviously overlooked something.”
5.” Left to themselves things tend to go from bad to
worse.”
6.” Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.”
7.” Every solution will breed new problems”
Anyone who has Access to the internet probably heard 8.” If anything can’t go wrong on its own, someone will
these two words and have an idea what it is: Murphy’s make it wrong.”
Law. But to understand his statement we have to have a 9.” Sooner or later the events will lead to the worst chain
look at his biography. of events.”
The mastermind behind these rules Edward Aloysius 10.” Nothing is as easy as it looks.”
Murphy Jr., is an American aerospace engineer who Although it might seem a little melancholic, these
worked on safety-critical systems. Being a Panamanian statements are the foundation of analytical error
descent who was born on 11 January 1918 in the Panama prevention strategies in the modern world and has a
Canal Zone was the eldest of five children. He attended crucial place in coding and computer science. Which
high school in New Jersey and went to United States means following Murphy’s rules in the process of
Military Academy at West Point. After graduating in 1940, producing something or doing an experiment is the
he started his pilot training the same year. He served in most efficient way of reducing the errors in your project/
World War 2 in several front such as Indian Theatre, China product.
and Burma (also known as Myanmar nowadays). In 1947 To sum it up, Murphy’s Law is actually stating in the
he joined United States Air Force Institute of Technology presence of a possibility if something will go wrong, it will.
and became a research and development officer at the However, we can make the worse slightly less off putting
Wright Development Centre where he became involved in and deal with the situation accordingly.

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