Murphy's Proviso To The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics

Notwithstanding anything stated to the contrary in the 2nd law;

The amount of energy needed to put right any accidental application of energy will always be significantly greater than the amount of energy used accidentally.

This simple truth popped into my mind today as I was writing an article.

It took a single inattentive click to accidentally delete almost all of the article and about three exhausting hours to remember what the heck I was waffling on about and to re-write the whole *$%* thing.

Murphy's Proviso demonstrates that the nearest anyone can ever get to perpetual motion is to become an obsessive-compulsive delete-key hitter.