"If something can go wrong will. "
Edward A. Murphy Jr. seems to have been one of the engineers experimented with rocket-on-rails made by the U.S. Air Force in 1949 to test the tolerance of the human body acceleration (USAF project MX981). One experiment involved a set of 16 accelerometers mounted on different parts of the body of the subject. There were two ways in which each sensor could be glued to its support, and somebody methodically rode them all 16 the wrong way.
Murphy delivered his historic sentence
"if there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it. "
which was reported by the test subject (Major John Paul Stapp) at a press conference a few days later.
(from Wikipedia)
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