1.Notheing is as easy as it looks.

 萬物皆比表象難

2.Everything takes longer than you think.

 凡事耗費的時間都比原先料想的長。

3.Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

 可能會出錯的地方定會出錯。

4.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.

 如果有好幾件事都有出錯的可能，定會出錯者就會是可能造成最嚴重損失的那一個。

5.If any things simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

 鐵定不會出錯的的是一定會砸鍋。

6.If everything seems to be go wrong, you have obviously overlooked something.

 如果事事乍看順利，那顯然是由某個地方沒有注意到。

7.Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

 所有的隱藏缺陷都會因為各種自然因素而被暴露出來。

8.It's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

 要把所有東西都弄得萬無一失是不可能的，因為蠢蛋都太天才了，肯定會搞砸。

9.Where you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

 每當你準備要做某件事時，就會有另一件得先處理的事情冒出來。

10.Every solution breeds new problems.

 每一個問題的解決都會引發新的問題。