The law of the perversity of nature: you cannot be able to determine in advance which side of the bread to butter. An electronic device is housed in a beautifully designed cabinet, and on the side or top there is a small box with the components for which the designer forgot to make room. The hard drives are always full. There is no point in trying to get more storage space. Data is expanded to fill any gaps. The name “Murphy`s Law” was not immediately certain. An article by Lee Correy in the February 1955 issue of Astounding Science Fiction referred to “Reilly`s Law,” which “states that in any scientific or engineering endeavor anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” [17] The chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis Strauss, was quoted in the Chicago Daily Tribune on February 12, 1955, as saying: “I hope it will be known as Strauss`s law. You could say something like this: if something bad can happen, it probably will. [18] Norman`s household tip: Give me a house where buffaloes roam and you`ll have a room full of buffalo chips. Author Arthur Bloch has compiled a series of books that are full of conclusions about Murphy`s Law and its variants. The first of these was Murphy`s Law and other reasons why things go wrong! [25] A carelessly planned project takes three times longer than expected; A carefully planned project only takes twice as long. Schopenhauer`s law of entropy: If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel filled with sewage, you get wastewater.
If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get sewage. In 1949, according to Robert A.J. Matthews, in a 1997 article in Scientific American,[8] the origin of the name was “Murphy`s Law”, while the concept itself had long been known to man. As Richard Rhodes quotes,[9]:187 Matthews said, “The known version of Murphy`s Law is not quite 50 years old, but the essential idea behind it has been around for centuries. […] The modern version of Murphy`s Law has its roots in the 1949 U.S. Air Force studies of the effects of rapid delays on pilots. Matthews goes on to explain how Captain Edward A. Murphy was the eponymous, but only because his original thought was later altered into the now established form, which is not exactly what he himself had said.
See below for details. Ray`s Rueful Rumination: The world is full of surprises, very few of which are enjoyable. Success always happens in the private sphere and failure in plain sight. Woods axiom: As soon as a pending computer task becomes a life-or-death situation, the power is cut off. A “sucking chest wound” is nature`s way of telling you to slow down. Law of probable spread: Not everything that hits the fan is evenly distributed. Murphy`s Seventh Law: Left to their own devices, things tend to get worse. Nolan`s observation: The difference between smart and stupid people isn`t that smart people don`t make mistakes. They just don`t make the same mistake over and over again. Nowlan`s conclusion: Following the path of least resistance makes people and rivers twisted. A grenade with a seven-second detonator always burns in four seconds. Fourth Law of Holes: If you expect to miss the holes left by others on your way to success, stop looking at the ones you just got out of.
Moving bodies tend to keep moving. Resting bodies tend to stay in bed. The first law of mathematics: The answer must seem right. Gerhardt`s Law: If you find something you like, buy a lifetime supply. They will stop doing it. Etorre`s observation: The other line moves faster. This applies to all lines – bank, supermarket, toll, customs, etc. And don`t try to change lines. The other line – the one you were originally in – then moves faster. (Barbara Ettore) Martin`s Universal Law: Nothing is ever so good or so bad that it cannot be extended to be more. Grave`s Law: As soon as you do something foolproof, another idiot comes.
Murphy`s Laws on Computers, Software and Programming A man begins to cut his wisdom teeth when he bites more than he can chew. First Law of Holes: The first step to getting out of the hole you dug for yourself is to stop digging. Rule of accuracy: When working to solve a problem, it always helps to know the answer. Lerman`s Law of Technology: Any technical problem can be overcome with enough time and money. Monday is a horrible way to spend 1/7 of your life. Law of continuity: Experiments must be reproducible. They should all fail in the same way. Daggot`s explanation: The key to complete open-mindedness is total indifference.
It is the early bird that catches the worm, but it is the second mouse that catches the cheese. For example, physical laws such as the law of gravity or scientific laws attempt to describe the fundamental nature of the universe itself. The laws of mathematics and logic describe the nature of rational thought and reasoning (Kant`s transcendental idealism and, differently, G. Spencer-Brown`s Laws of Form were precisely a determination of the a priori laws governing human thought before any interaction with experience). To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above one`s principles. Spark`s Law of Irrepressible Use: When a person has something, they feel compelled to use it, even if it`s not necessary. Examples: The child who receives a hammer uses it. The person who gets the authority will exaggerate it.
The sentence first came to public attention at a press conference where Stapp was asked how it was that no one was seriously injured in the rocket sled tests. Stapp replied that it was because they always considered Murphy`s Law; He then summarized the law, saying that it usually meant that it was important to consider all possibilities (possible things that could go wrong) before proceeding with a test and acting against them. Therefore, the use of Stapp and the alleged use of Murphy are very different in attitude and attitude. One is sour, the other a confirmation of the surmountability of the predictable, usually through sufficient planning and redundancy. Nichols believes Murphy was unwilling to take responsibility for the device`s initial failure (itself a major slip-up) and should be doubly condemned for not giving the MX981 team time to validate the sensor`s functionality and try to blame a subordinate in the embarrassing consequences. Forty-third Law of Computing: All That Can Go – Berkowitz`s Postulate: A clean office gives a sense of relief and a plan for impending disaster. Failure is not an option. It comes with the software. Murphy`s law of selective gravity: An object falls in such a way that it does the most damage. The different memories of the different participants years later make it impossible to determine who first invented Murphy`s dicta.
The name of the law is said to have come from an attempt to use new measuring devices developed by Edward A. Murphy. [11] The phrase was coined in a negative reaction to something Murphy said when his aircraft didn`t work and were finally sunk in their current form before a press conference a few months later – the first (in a long series) given by John Stapp, a US Air Force colonel and flight surgeon in the 1950s. [11] [12] Tenenbaum`s law of reproducibility: The most interesting results occur only once. Never ask the hairdresser if you need a haircut, or a salesperson if it`s a good price. Rocky`s lemma of innovative prevention: If the results are not known in advance, the funding agencies will reject the proposal. Steinmetz`s rumination: There are no stupid questions, and no man becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. Jones` Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to a field and stays there long enough becomes an obstacle to its progress – in direct proportion to the importance of the original contribution.
Oler`s theorem: Everyone needs a certain amount of misery in their life to be happy. Episode 1: When his misery falls below his critical level, he becomes unhappy and is driven to seek new misery. Episode 2: When his total misery reaches its critical level, he becomes happy again. From its first public announcement, Murphy`s Law quickly expanded to various engineering cultures associated with aerospace engineering. [24] It wasn`t long before variants entered the popular imagination and changed over time. As soon as the stewardess serves coffee, the airline enters the turbulence. Oliver`s Law of Place: No matter where you are, you are there. Bove`s theorem: The work remaining to be done to reach your goal increases as the deadline approaches.
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