Murphy's Laws for the 21st Century



Extracted from：http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=216&doc_id=1325596

Murphy's Law: Part 1

1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
    没有事情会像看上去那么容易

2. Everything takes longer than you think.
    每件事情所要花的时间都会比你所想像的更长

3. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
    任何事情如果可能出错，就注定会出错

4. If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
    事物出错的时机总是没有最坏只有更坏

5. If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
    任何事情，即便它不会轻易地出错，它也终究会出错

6. 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.
    如果你判明一个过程有4种可能的方式出错并回避了它们，那很快第5种就会让你措手不及地冒出来

7. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
    如果放任不管的话，事情总会从坏变为更坏

8. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
    如果每件事情看上去都进展顺利的话，那很明显你看漏了什么

9. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
    任何事情都不可能做到万无一失，因为人们总是以天才的方式犯蠢

10. The light at the end of the tunnel is only the light of an oncoming train.
    隧道尽头的灯光不过是一辆飞奔而来的列车的头灯