"Murphy's Laws" and the Harvard Speculative Society

[Bruce K. Dykes]

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Date: Sunday, June 20, 1999 20:39
Subject: "Murphy's Laws" and the Harvard Speculative Society


>....editors as well as laboratory workers are subject to Murphy's Laws, to
>wit:
>   I.  If something can go wrong, it will.
>   II.  When left to themselves, things always go from bad to worse.
>   III.  Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
>--SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, April 1956, pg. 166, col. 2.


When Theodore Sturgeon helmed one of the SF mags, he created Sturgeon's Law:

90% of SF is crap.

It was later amended to:

90% of everything is crap.

Bruce