Anybody here not heard of Murphy's Law?

We know it by heart, don't we? Let's say it together:

"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."

Anybody here know where it started and who Mr. Murphy was?

The first reference to Murphy's Law was in the April 1956 issue of Scientific American in the "Amateur Scientist" column. Let me give the quote from which the Murphy's Law phenomenon spread like a virus all over the globe. It all began with three Murphy's Laws:

"Dr. Schaefer's observation confirms this department's sad experience that editors as well as laboratory workers are subject to Murphy's Laws, to wit:

1. If something can go wrong, it will.

2. When left to themselves, things always go from bad to worse.

3. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw."

(Amateur Scientist, Scientific A…