May 1, 2006 in Life, Randomness
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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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
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
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.
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！
feedpuppy said:
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:
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。
唉唉……今天被老板彻底郁闷了……fk……
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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