„If there’s more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one
of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence,
then somebody will do it that way.“ -- Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr.
Ebenfalls eine interessante Erläuterung findet sich im Bago, Kapitel 17: http://www.nyms.de/bago.html (müsst leider selber runterscrollen, in dem HTML-Müll gibt's keine Anchors).
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.” — Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time