Basically, if anything could go wrong, that's what it did. Murphy said something to that effect, others echoed it, and the theory has since become more widely known as Murphy's Law. Murphy's Law remains a popular concept because we tend to focus on negative events and look for reasons when things go wrong. Put another way, we tend to ignore all the stuff that's going right all day.
Yet when things go wrong, we prefer to wring our hands and yell out, "Why? Many scientists claim that the second law of thermodynamics, also known as the law of entropy, supports Murphy's law. In our universe, according to the law of entropy, systems naturally tend to end up in disorder. Although this might be valid on a wide scale over time, it certainly doesn't justify why you tripped over your skateboard or ran out of hot water in the shower!
There are countless examples of this in today's culture. It is accepted, for example, that the bread will always land the butter-side down when it is dropped, that there will be rain as soon as you wash your car, and that the other line will always move faster when you queue. Of course, many people will interpret this law as a pessimistic view of life.
In fact, they couldn't be any further from the truth. Losers can take advantage of a good knowledge of Murphy's Law to help better prepare themselves for the unexpected problems and challenges that life is putting in our way.
Probably because many times funny things happen. I remember when I was young, a friend told us that his brother was angry with him and put some books on top of the door of his room so that they would fall on my friends head as he entered. This leads to an important issue: there are so many things that could backfire, that sometimes it is hard to predict which will create a problem. Good things happen, too. Some people even say that this law is related with psychology and tend to find reasons why we all pay more attention to bad luck than to good luck.
Some of those reasons are actually quite interesting. But when something goes wrong, we tend to look for reasons why the result was different than expected. So this could explain why some people believe that we tend to have more bad luck than good luck which is not true. There are no practical applications for this new law, but it could be interpreted as a sign of protest or disagreement.
It has nothing to do with luck or psychology. In the Second Law of Thermodynamics, entropy states that all systems will gradually end up in chaos lack of order. They relate different ideas and show through mathematics the numerical relationship of different laws, theories and concepts, usually in the world of science Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, etc.
The Dilbert Principle: Incompetent employees are promoted to the position where they can do the least damage — management. Scott Adams. The Law of Predicted Results: Market research can be conducted and interpreted to prove any desired conclusion. Westheimer's Rule: To estimate the time it takes to do a task, estimate the time you think it should take, multiply by two, and change the unit of measure to the next highest unit.
Thus, we allocate two days for a one-hour task. A bathroom hook will be loaded to capacity immediately upon becoming available. This also applies to freeways, closets, playgrounds, downtown hotels, taxis, parking lots, wallets, purses, pockets, and so on. The list is endless. Fletcher's Flagrant Rumination: Efficiency is a highly developed form of laziness. Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ten percent of the time; the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
Paul's Second Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up. Schopenhauer's Law of Entropy: If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel full of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get sewage. The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions: a. Whenever you have plenty of ammo, you never miss. Whenever you are low on ammo, you can't hit the broad side of a barn.
Disks are always full. It is futile to try to get more disk space. Data expands to fill any void. Caligari's Come-Back: A bad sector disk error occurs only after you've done several hours of work without performing a backup. Gilb's Laws Of Unreliability: 1. At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable. Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited. Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done. Hinds' Law Of Computer Programming 1.
Any given program, when running, is obsolete. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented. Any given program will expand to fill all available memory. The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it. Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers cannot write in English.
Corollary: If such a program has not crashed yet, it is waiting for a critical moment before it crashes. No matter how good a deal you get on computer components, the price will always drop immediately after the purchase. Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. Wood's Axiom: As soon as a still-to-be-finished computer task becomes a life-or-death situation, the power fails.
Fourth Law of Applied Terror: The night before the English History mid-term, your Biology instructor will assign pages on planaria. Corollary: Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor's course. Fifth Law of Applied Terror: If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book. Corollary: If you are given a take-home test, you will forget where you live. Rahilly's Law of Academic Administration: Remember that not all the faculty have all their faculties.
Terman's Law: There is no direct relationship between the quality of an educational program and its cost. Utvich's Observation: Education is the process of moving from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty. Carlson's Consolation: Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example. Fresco's Discovery: If you knew what you were doing, you'd probably be bored.
Corollary: Just because you're bored doesn't mean you know what you're doing. The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Reyer's Reflection: A professional is one who does a good job even when he doesn't feel like it. Gummidge's Law: The amount of expertise varies in inverse proportion to the number of statements understood by the general public. Ryan's Law: Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish yourself as an expert. Van Oech's Law: An expert really doesn't know anymore than you do.
He is merely better organized and has slides. Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. Weinberg's Corollary: An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. Frisch's Law: It take one woman nine months to have a baby, no matter how many men you put on the job.
Firestone's Negative Reformulation of Frisch's Law: You cannot have a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. Loeb's Laws of Medicine: If what you're doing is working, keep doing it. If what you're doing is not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.
Above all, never let a surgeon get your patient. Shalit's Drugstore Observation: These pills can't be habit-forming; I've been taking them for years.
Second Law: They are both wrong. Lerman's Law of Technology: Any technical problem can be overcome given enough time and money. When there are sufficient funds in the checking account, checks take two weeks to clear. When there are insufficient funds, checks clear overnight. A compromise is the art of dividing the cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well-being. Barth's Distinction: There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't. Brooke's Law: Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something that either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.
Bula's Truisms: Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a superficial world. Beauty's in the eye of the beholder, yet pin-ups find plenty of room. Burr's Law: You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, and that's sufficient. Cutler Webster's Law: There are two sides to every argument, unless a person is personally involved, in which case there is only one. DeVyver's Law: Given a sufficient number of people and an adequate amount of time, you can create insurmountable opposition to the most inconsequential idea.
Ducharm's Axiom: If you view a problem closely enough, you will recognize yourself as part of the problem. Ferris' Frothing: Whatever their faults, the Communists never created canned laughter. First Law of Debate: Never argue with a fool — people might forget who's who.
Glyme's Formula For Success: The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. Grave's Law: As soon as you make something idiot-proof, along comes another idiot. Green's Law Of Debate: Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about. Half the population is below median intelligence. Well over half the population is above average. This is due to the fact that there is a limit to human intelligence, but no limit to human stupidity.
Harrison's Postulate: For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. Hodge's Homily: There comes a time in a man's life when he must rise above principle. Hurewitz's Memory Principle: The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
Jone's Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress — in direct proportion to the importance of the original contribution. Jones's Law: The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on. Just remember that it takes forty-two muscles to frown and only four muscles to flip 'em the bird. Lacopi's Law: After food and sex, man's greatest drive is to tell the other fellow how to do his job.
Law of Personal Expertise: Just when you get really good at something, they don't need you to do it any more. Levy's Laws: To have a sense of humor is to be a tragic figure. Any discovery is more likely to be exploited by the wicked than applied by the virtuous. No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail. Eternal boredom is the price of vigilance. Lyndon's Definition: An optimist is a father who lets his teen-age son take the car on a date. A pessimist is a father who will not.
The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small. If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap. The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions. The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire. There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss.
Don't be conspicuous. In the combat zone, it draws fire. Out of the combat zone, it draws sergeants. If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy. Murphy's Technology Laws You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.
Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand. If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm. The attention span of a computer is only as long as it electrical cord. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Tell a man there are billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure. All great discoveries are made by mistake.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading. Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. All's well that ends. A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. The first myth of management is that it exists. A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection. New systems generate new problems.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything. Any given program, when running, is obsolete. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make. Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's work.
Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book. The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman. To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.
After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done. Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable and three parts which are still under development. A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number. Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.
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