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“墨菲法则”、“派金森定理”和“彼德原理”并称为二十世纪西方文化中最杰出的三大发现。它源于1949年,一名叫墨菲的美国空军上尉工程师。假定你把一片干面包掉在地毯上,这片面包的两面均可能着地。但假定你把一片一面涂有一层果酱的面包掉在地毯上,常常是带有果酱的一面落在地毯上(麻烦)。换一种说法:如果某件事有可能变坏的话,这种可能就会成为现实。这就是墨菲法则。它的适用范围非常广泛,它揭示了一种独特的社会及自然现象。它的极端表述是:如果坏事有可能发生,不管这种可能性有多小,它总会发生,并造成最大可能的破坏。
The Murphy’s Law, the Peyton’s Theorem and the Peter’s Principle are also described as the three most prominent discoveries of Western culture in the twentieth century. It originated in 1949, a U.S. Air Force captain engineer named Murphy. Suppose you put a piece of dry bread on the carpet, this piece of bread may be on both sides of the ground. But suppose you put a piece of bread covered with jam on a carpet, often with jam on the carpet (troublesome). Put another way: If something could get worse, that might come true. This is Murphy’s Law. Its wide scope of application reveals a unique social and natural phenomenon. Its extreme formulation is that if a bad thing is likely to happen, no matter how small the possibility is, it always happens and causes the greatest possible damage.