. "United States of America" . . "Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr."@en . . "Ed"@en . "1918-01-11Z"^^ . "1990-07-17Z"^^ . "Engineer, inventor of \"Murphys law\"" . "1990Z"^^ . . . . . "Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. (January 11, 1918 \u2013 July 17, 1990) was an American aerospace engineer who worked on safety-critical systems. He is best known as the namesake of Murphy's law, which is said to state, \"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.\"Born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1918, Murphy was the eldest of five children. After attending high school in New Jersey, he went to the United States Military Academy at West Point, graduating in 1940."@en . "1918Z"^^ . "Murphy, Edward A., Jr."@en . "1947Z"^^ . "1940Z"^^ . .