Murphy's Law

GPTKB entity

Statements (27)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:philosophy
phrase
adage
gptkbp:culturalSignificance used to express pessimism or fatalism
gptkbp:field engineering
popular culture
project management
gptkbp:formedBy 1949
gptkbp:hasVariant 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.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Murphy's Law
gptkbp:influencedBy engineering culture
popular sayings
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Edward_A._Murphy_Jr.
gptkbp:originatedIn gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:popularizedBy gptkb:John_Paul_Stapp
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Finagle's_Law
gptkb:Sod's_Law
gptkbp:statedIn Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
gptkbp:usedIn humor
risk management
safety engineering
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Michael_Fassbender
gptkb:Murphy_Lee
gptkb:Murphy
gptkb:Buddy_Murphy
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5