20 Famous Quotes That Were Never Actually Spoken

By Chris Waugh / August 2, 2016

4."Anything That Can Go Wrong, Will Go Wrong" - Edward Murphy

The creator of Murphy's Law meant exactly what this quote says when he came up with his theory, but he never actually used the phrase himself.

Instead, "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" is a phrase coined by others to summarise his theory.

Murphy's far less sexy way of putting it was: "If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way."