Resistentialism: The seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects. [If it must work, it won't.]
— Paul Jennings
Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scornful and uncooperative objects -- pianos that mock our sausage fingers; computers that develop transient but alarming hypochondria; keys, socks, and teaspoons that scurry off to their secret covens and never return.
— Anu Garg
Bernstein's first law: that small dropped objects, such as cufflinks, will be found only in the place most inaccessible for retrieval.
— Wikipedia
I do believe in the malevolence of the inanimate, and of all inanimate objects, stones are the most malevolent.
— Louise Dickinson Rich
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
— Edward A. Murphy
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
