Anything that can go wrong will go wrong

今天在English The Real Deal看到了Murphy’s Law。这条定律是在1949年从美国空军的Capt. Edward A. Murphy口中诞生的,到现在已经有了无数变型和引伸,但中心思想就是一句话:If anything can go wrong, it will。列几条比较基本的,用最近常见到的一个词来形容,这些定律非常死相-_-。

MURPHY’S LAWS
  • Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
  • If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
  • If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
  • If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
  • Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
  • If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
  • Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
  • Mother nature is a bitch.
  • It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
  • Everything takes longer than you think.
  • Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
  • Every solution breeds new problems.

还有一张poster,上面列的几条是相对更生活化的,当然也同样死相,比如The chance of a slice of bread falling butter side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet(面包掉落有黄油的一面着地的概率正比于地毯的价格)。上面还强调Murphy was an optimist。如果我们已经知道everything will go wrong,那么也就没什么好畏惧的了。所以让我们共同乐观对待这个美好的世界吧,禀承The Murphy Philosophy: Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse. lol

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7 Responses to “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”  

  1. 1
    1 littlepuppy

    请问死相是最近常见到的词吗 -.-^ 这算是特别积极的乐观啊 哈哈

  2. 2
    2 feedpuppy

    主要常见于你和miao之口。。。

    这个确实算是乐观的,玩世不恭的人才活得最自在哈

  3. 3
    3 Jing

    If you want to be the second type guy, you need to learn “玩世不恭”,hehe. And for the first type, hehe, you may be cute in kindergarten as I know.

  4. 4
    4 yanjiewei

    以前不知道还有这个law,不过看了之后觉得很有意思,于是自己也在网上搜了很多。最后居然和热力学第二定律给联系起来了,强啊!还是我们物理的有前途!

  5. 5
    5 feedpuppy

    feedpuppy said:

    Jing said:

    If you want to be the second type guy, you need to learn “玩世不恭”,hehe. And for the first type, hehe, you may be cute in kindergarten as I know.

    我初中班主任就评价我说玩世不恭,其实我一直是有点的,哈。as for whether i was cute, you said it like you knew me in kindergarten, heng!

    feedpuppy said:

    yanjiewei said:

    以前不知道还有这个law,不过看了之后觉得很有意思,于是自己也在网上搜了很多。最后居然和热力学第二定律给联系起来了,强啊!还是我们物理的有前途!

    以前我有听说过一点,但都是变种衍生的,都没说到精髓。

    物理,我越来越觉得其实也是一种宗教,只不过和一般宗教相比,好处在于它允许“信徒”质疑和更新教义。

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    6 littlepuppy

    唉唉……今天被老板彻底郁闷了……fk……

  7. 7
    7 feedpuppy

    这个这个。。。彻底了也好了,不过再糟了,就会进入上升期了!


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