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Murphy's law [a] is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.".. Though similar statements and concepts have been made over the course of history, the law itself was coined by, and named after, American aerospace engineer Edward A. Murphy Jr.; its exact origins are debated, but it is generally agreed it originated from Murphy and his team ...
There are also laws ascribed to individuals by others, such as Murphy's law; or given eponymous names despite the absence of the named person. Named laws range from significant scientific laws such as Newton's laws of motion, to humorous examples such as Murphy's law.
Divorcing Jack won a Betty Trask Award in the same year and was adapted into a 1998 film starring David Thewlis. [5] [6] Several of Bateman's novels featured the semi-autobiographical Belfast journalist, Dan Starkey. [6] His book Murphy's Law was adapted from the BBC television series Murphy's Law (2001–2007), featuring James Nesbitt.
One of the first records of "Finagle factor" is probably a December 1962 article in The Michigan Technic, credited to Campbell, but bylined "I Finaglin" [5] The term is also used in a 1960 wildlife management article. [6] Arthur Bloch, in his book "Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong" (1977) stated variations on this: [7]
Arthur Bloch (born January 1, 1948) is an American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books. [1] He has also written a self-help satire called Healing Yourself with Wishful Thinking . Since 1986 he has been the producer and director of the Thinking Allowed PBS television series.
The theorem may have also been relayed to Bloch in conversation with his acquaintance Harris Freeman, who he knew from University of California, Santa Cruz, and who had found a collection of "laws", including Murphy's Law, Ginsberg's Theorem, and many others, somewhere on the ARPANET (a precursor of the Internet) in the mid 1970s while working ...
Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr. (January 11, 1918 – July 17, 1990 [1]) was an American aerospace engineer who worked on safety-critical systems. He is best known for his namesake "Murphy's law", which is said to be "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong".
Sod's law, a British culture axiom, states that "if something can go wrong, it will". The law sometimes has a corollary: that the misfortune will happen at "the worst possible time" (Finagle's law). The term is commonly used in the United Kingdom (while in many parts of North America the phrase "Murphy's law" is more popular). [1]