Murphy's Law

While I've been going through some of the advertising websites in the internet, I found this unusual statement:

"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy's Law

Then I started to think why would anything silly like this would be termed as a law! Only after getting to know about the history of Murphy's Law through the internet, I was so certain about what it is all about. Thought I could share the information I've got...

So here are my search results:

The following is an excerpt from "The Desert Wings":

March 3, 1978

Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") was born at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 at North Base.

It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash.

One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."

The contractor's project manager kept a list of "laws" and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law.

Actually, what he did was take an old law that had been around for years in a more basic form and give it a name.