I was project manager at Edwards Airforce Base during Colonel J.
P. Stapp's experimental crash research testing on the track at North
Base. The law's namesake was Captain Ed Murphy--a development engineer
from Wright aircraft lab. Frustration with a strap transducer which
was malfunctioning due to an error by a lab technician in the wiring of
the strain gauge bridges caused Murphy to remark: "If there's any
way to do it wrong, he will!" I assigned Murphy's Law to the
statement and the associated variations.
-- George E. Nichols in The Listener 16 February 1984
-- (Murphy, Edward A. (1918-))
