>> “Murphy was an optimist” <<
I had a friend that used to say it, it was back in 1957, I was 13 years old at the time we met. He was a physicist, and a registered electrical engineer, working for Applied Radiation Corp. His name was Norris Kenton Fields, and was known simply as “Fields.”
He was a brilliant but kooky man, and I learned alot from him.
Wikipedia has an interesting article on Murphy’s law.