墨菲定理
(2023-04-11 00:36:05)
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MURPHY’S LAW is a humorous maxim declaring, in general that if anything can go wrong, it will. The law originated in 1949 with Capt. Ed Murphy, an aircraft engineer. Referring to a technician, he said, “If there is any way to do it wrong, he will.” The project manager, George E. Nichols, assigned the name “Murphy’s law” to that and similar statements.
Additional forms of Murphy’s law include “nothing is as easy as it looks” and “everything takes longer than you think it will.”
墨菲定理的其它形式包括“任何事情并不像它看上去那么简单”,以及“每件事都会比你预计的时间要长)”。
(译者注:该词条位列《大美百科全书》1985年版,第19卷,第629页)