OT: Electronics humor: Murphy's Electronics Laws
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- The circuit designed to protect the unit from catastrophic
failure won't.
- The circuit designed to be highly reliable isn't.
- Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is
obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable and three parts which are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.
- If x is the amount of time you wait to touch a hot vacuum
tube, the time for the tube to be cool enough to touch is greater than x.
- An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less
until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
- A complex system that works has invariably found to have evolved
from a simple system that works.
- Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion
with confidence.
- Any component removed, tested, and found good has a
extraordinarily high chance of breaking in the re-installation process.
- Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want
to use it.
- Always draw your curves, then plot your readings.
- Do not believe in miracles - rely on them.
- Firmness of delivery dates is inversely proportional to the
tightness of schedule.
- Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term. For
example, the velocity will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.
- Any wire cut to length will be too short.
- Tolerances will be accumulated unidirectionally toward maximum
difficulty to assemble.
- A fail-safe circuit will destroy others.
- A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the
fuse by blowing first.
- Only after completely disassembling the unit will you realize the
reason it wasn't working was because it wasn't plugged in.
- Any error in calculation will be in the direction of most harm.
- In specifications, Murphy's Law supersedes Ohm's Law.
- If a safety factor is set through service experience at an
ultimate value, an ingenious idiot will promptly calculate a method to
exceed the safety factor.
- Given any problems containing 'n' equations, there will always be
'n+1' unknowns.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic.
- If the number of screws which must be removed when disassembling
a given piece of electronic device is represented by x, the the
number of screws used when reassembling it will be some number less
than x.
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