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This comic starts with a philosophical musing about {{w|engineering}}. The last panel reveals a joke about {{w|Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner}}, a cartoon series created by {{w|Chuck Jones}}. In the cartoon, the Coyote is constantly building odd contraptions (with parts ordered from the {{w|Acme Corporation}}) to catch the Road Runner. The Coyote never succeeds, often because his devices don't work as intended. | This comic starts with a philosophical musing about {{w|engineering}}. The last panel reveals a joke about {{w|Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner}}, a cartoon series created by {{w|Chuck Jones}}. In the cartoon, the Coyote is constantly building odd contraptions (with parts ordered from the {{w|Acme Corporation}}) to catch the Road Runner. The Coyote never succeeds, often because his devices don't work as intended. | ||
| β | The word {{w|Hubris}} from the comic title means extreme pride or arrogance | + | The word {{w|Hubris}} from the comic title means extreme pride or arrogance, the origin is back to the ancient Greek culture. So this comic is joking about engineers doesn't oversee their results like Coyote's failures. |
From the second panel, [https://catb.org/jargon/html/M/Murphys-Law.html| Murphy's Law] can be simplified to "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." It was originally developed as a guideline for accident prevention starting at the design level. In the common vernacular today, it is interpreted more liberally: "If there is even the slightest chance of an unfortunate accident occurring, despite all your attempts to prevent it, the accident will happen anyway, purely out of spite." The namesake {{w|Edward A. Murphy Jr.}} has since evolved to mythic proportions, being cast as a vengeful god of misfortune and ruin. | From the second panel, [https://catb.org/jargon/html/M/Murphys-Law.html| Murphy's Law] can be simplified to "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." It was originally developed as a guideline for accident prevention starting at the design level. In the common vernacular today, it is interpreted more liberally: "If there is even the slightest chance of an unfortunate accident occurring, despite all your attempts to prevent it, the accident will happen anyway, purely out of spite." The namesake {{w|Edward A. Murphy Jr.}} has since evolved to mythic proportions, being cast as a vengeful god of misfortune and ruin. | ||
