Reddit reviews The Complete Murphy's Law

It's like the "catch a Ditto" quest. If you have one, no Dittos spawn. If you delete it, it is guaranteed to spawn up to 3 Ditto in your immediate vicinity in the next 4 hour period.

There's a scientific reason for this, it's written somewhere in this book.

I think I don't know enough about civil engineering to say, and I'm pretty confident you don't either. If you've got specific evidence of malfeasance or corruption, bring it and I'll probably believe you—it's not like there hasn't been such before—but kneejerk cynicism ain't evidence. This is a totally unprecedented problem, with a vast number of unknowns and shifting conditions as I already pointed out. It seems ludicrous to me to assume with total confidence that you can predict what dollar figure should fix it.

Here. Pick up a copy of this. It's not only a great humor book, it's the best guide I've ever read to why simplistic demands like yours about complex engineering problems like theirs just don't mean jack shit. (Heh. You wouldn't happen to be an executive by any chance? You sure talk like one.)