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by renewiltord 1220 days ago
In The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations by Sidney Dekker, he quotes someone else saying something like:

> Everything that can go wrong will go right.

Murphy's Law then manifests from escaping disaster through repeated iterations of taking risks where most things play out well anyway.

I have to laugh at the "append z to the end" strat at Google, though. That's a good one.