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caminanteyesterday at 8:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

The parent is also incorrectly re-phrasing Murphy's Law -- "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."

Actual quote:

> “If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way.”


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ses1984yesterday at 8:15 PM

Engineering controls basically mean making it impossible to do something in a way that results in catastrophe.

maxbondyesterday at 8:10 PM

I'd be interested to hear why my restatement was incorrect. I'm confident that it's what Murphy meant, mostly because I've read his other laws and that's what I recall as the general through line. But that's was a long time ago and perhaps I'm misremembering or was misinterpreting at the time.