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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