My favorite Boxmen and Murphy’s Law

My favorite Boxmen and Murphy’s Law
Aren’t they cute and look like people? Thank you for creating these cardboard people. Anton Tang, Singapore, takes nice shots of these plastic people in typical, everyday settings and environments.
Meanwhile, Boxmen and Murphy’s Law is my choice for today post.
Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he’ll have to touch to be sure.
Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.
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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.
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The attention span of a computer is only as long as it electrical cord.
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
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A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours
are lost.
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Some people manage by the book, even though they don’t know who
wrote the book or even what book.
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The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.
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To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.
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After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done. Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable and three parts which are still under development.
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My favorite Boxmen and Murphy’s Law

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
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Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.
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Give all orders verbally. Never write anything down that might go into a “Pearl Harbor File.”
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Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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The more cordial the buyer’s secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.
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In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totalled correctly after 4:30 p.m. on Friday. The correct total will become self-evident at 8:15 a.m. on Monday.
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If there is a possibility of several things going wrong the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
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Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner. Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way.
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The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management.
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