> > But the most important part is that Murphy never said "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong"
> > [with or without the comma, as you prefer]. His real quote, or so I read, was about three
> > paragraphs to that extent. Don't know when it was condensed.
>
> His boss, at a press conference, if I recall correctly and we're both thinking of the same Murphy.

No, that's a different Murphy who was resposible for a similar but vastly inferior quote and ended up having to leave the notable-sayings profession and take up furniture-polish-manufacturing (which he succeeded quite well at). The Murphy to whom we are referring was condensed by, I believe, the Dalai Lama in one of his less lucid moments.