"How is the term ""If anything can go wrong, it will"" commonly known?"
"go wrong!"", Yhprum's law, where the name is spelled backwards, is ""anything that can go right, will go right"" — the optimistic application of Murphy's law in reverse. Peter Drucker, the management consultant, with a nod to Murphy, formulated ""Drucker's Law"" in dealing with complexity of management: ""If one thing goes wrong, everything else will, and at the same time."" Mrs. Murphy's Law is a corollary of Murphy's Law. It states that things will go wrong when Mr. Murphy is away, as in this formulation: Murphy's law Murphy's law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: ""Anything"
"Sod's law Sod's law is the axiom that ""if something ""can"" go wrong, it will"", with the further addendum, in British culture, borrowed from Finagle's law, that it will happen at ""the worst possible time"". This may simply be construed, again in British culture, as ""hope for the best, expect the worst"". The phrase is seemingly derived, at least in part, from the colloquialism an ""unlucky sod""; a term for someone who has had some bad unlucky experience, and is usually used as a sympathetic reference to the person. The term is still used in the United Kingdom, though in"
"truly large numbers. Sod's law Sod's law is the axiom that ""if something ""can"" go wrong, it will"", with the further addendum, in British culture, borrowed from Finagle's law, that it will happen at ""the worst possible time"". This may simply be construed, again in British culture, as ""hope for the best, expect the worst"". The phrase is seemingly derived, at least in part, from the colloquialism an ""unlucky sod""; a term for someone who has had some bad unlucky experience, and is usually used as a sympathetic reference to the person. The term is still used in the United"
"Murphy's law Murphy's law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: ""Anything that can go wrong will go wrong"". The perceived perversity of the universe has long been a subject of comment, and precursors to the modern version of Murphy's law are not hard to find. The concept may be as old as humanity. Recent significant research in this area has been conducted by members of the American Dialect Society. Society member Stephen Goranson has found a version of the law, not yet generalized or bearing that name, in a report by Alfred Holt at an 1877"
"well confirmed by practice, what-ever can happen will happen if we make trials enough."" In later publications ""whatever can happen will happen"" occasionally is termed ""Murphy's law,"" which raises the possibility—if something went wrong—that ""Murphy"" is ""De Morgan"" misremembered (an option, among others, raised by Goranson on the American Dialect Society list). American Dialect Society member Bill Mullins has found a slightly broader version of the aphorism in reference to stage magic. The British stage magician Nevil Maskelyne wrote in 1908: It is an experience common to all men to find that, on any special occasion, such as the production"
"Failing badly Failing badly and failing well are concepts in systems security and network security (and engineering in general) describing how a system reacts to failure. The terms have been popularized by Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer and security consultant. A system that fails badly is one that fails catastrophically once failure occurs. A single point of failure can thus bring down the whole system. Examples include: A system that fails well is one that ""compartmentalizes"" or ""contains"" failure. Examples include: Designing a system to 'fail well' has also been alleged to be a better use of limited security funds than"
"She'll be right She'll be right (often followed by a friendly term of address such as ""mate"") is a frequently used idiom in Australian and New Zealand culture that expresses the belief that ""whatever is wrong will right itself with time"", which is considered to be either an optimistic or apathetic outlook. The term can also be used to refer to a situation or object which is not perfect but is good enough to fulfil its purpose. In this usage, ""she"" represents everything, allowing the phrase to be used both in circumstances of extreme hardship and in casual speech referring"
"form of Murphy's law goes back as far as 1952, as an epigraph to a mountaineering book by John Sack, who described it as an ""ancient mountaineering adage"": Anything that can possibly go wrong, does. According to the book ""A History of Murphy's Law"" by author Nick T. Spark, differing recollections years later by various participants make it impossible to pinpoint who first coined the saying ""Murphy's law"". The law's name supposedly stems from an attempt to use new measurement devices developed by Edward Murphy. The phrase was coined in adverse reaction to something Murphy said when his devices failed"
"of a magical effect for the first time in public, everything that ""can"" go wrong ""will"" go wrong. Whether we must attribute this to the malignity of matter or to the total depravity of inanimate things, whether the exciting cause is hurry, worry, or what not, the fact remains. In 1948, humorist Paul Jennings coined the term ""resistentialism"", a jocular play on ""resistance"" and ""existentialism"", to describe ""seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects"", where objects that cause problems (like lost keys or a runaway bouncy ball) are said to exhibit a high degree of malice toward humans. The contemporary"
"the typical quest to eliminate all potential sources of errors and failure. Failing badly Failing badly and failing well are concepts in systems security and network security (and engineering in general) describing how a system reacts to failure. The terms have been popularized by Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer and security consultant. A system that fails badly is one that fails catastrophically once failure occurs. A single point of failure can thus bring down the whole system. Examples include: A system that fails well is one that ""compartmentalizes"" or ""contains"" failure. Examples include: Designing a system to 'fail well' has also"
"North America the eponymous ""Murphy's law"" is more popular. Sod's law is similar to, but broader than, Murphy's law (""Whatever can go wrong will go wrong""). For example, concepts such as ""bad fortune will be tailored to the individual"" and ""good fortune will occur in spite of the individual's actions"" are sometimes given as examples of Sod's law in action. This would broaden Sod's law to a general sense of being ""mocked by fate"". In these aspects, it is similar to some definitions of irony, particularly the irony of fate. Murphy's technological origin on John Stapp's Project MX981 is more"
"has confronted us only in your own minds, by your own wishes. It will be a good thing if the German proletariat is able to take action. But have you measured it, have you discovered an instrument that will show that the German revolution will break out on such-and-such a day? [...] If the revolution breaks out, everything is saved. Of course! But if it does not turn out as we desire, if it does not achieve victory tomorrow—what then? Then the masses will say to you, you acted like gamblers—you staked everything on a fortunate turn of events that"
"by a headful of ideas...and it frequently has words but they may or may not make literal sense. If they do, their meaning is not representational of what the whole element conveys. Hence they carry a brief, detached quality. If they do not make sense, then they are acknowledgement of the sound of the word rather than the meaning conveyed by it."" Due to the convention's nature, there is no such term as ""failure"" which can be applied. ""For when something goes ""wrong"", something far more ""right"", more revelatory may emerge. This sort of sudden near-miracle presently is made more"
"fact that you lost because your opponent outwitted you. Ninety per cent of my students give up on tournament chess when they get into junior high school and the main reason is that they can't stand losing."" ""If you rely on your own judgment, either of two good things will happen. Either you’ll be right, and succeed, or you’ll be wrong, and learn something."" ""We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let you know."" ""The polarity is clear. When you teach, you're trying to help someone"
"to everyday events. Related terms also used with the same meaning include She'll be apples (Australia) and She's good (New Zealand). In recent years, the term has taken on a less than flattering connotation, with ""a she'll-be-right attitude"" referring to a willingness to accept a low-quality or makeshift situation rather than seek a more desirable solution. She'll be right She'll be right (often followed by a friendly term of address such as ""mate"") is a frequently used idiom in Australian and New Zealand culture that expresses the belief that ""whatever is wrong will right itself with time"", which is considered"
"Turn to the left instead of the right and people will be hurt or killed because of it. And it will happen on live TV, or it will be recorded... and like Rodney King, it will play over and over. All over the world. Until the unrest that is already bubbling over will boil over... and every politician looking to make a name for himself will run right on TV and they will tell America how they are going to save the world from these out-of-control costumed characters who think the law does not apply to them. And half of"
"to ""vis maior"", ""casus fortuitus"", general deterioration over time and even theft. Voet says: Under the name of risk falls here every disadvantage which overtakes a thing sold, such as death; running away and wounding in the case of [...] an animal sold; an opening of the ground in the case of a field [...]; conflagration and collapse in the case of a house; shipwreck in the case of a ship; mustiness, souring or leakage in the case of wine; and finally spoiling, going bad, perishing or purloining in the case of all things. For a modern example, see ""Van"
"confided ""this is a long tough road we have to travel."" In an oft-quoted passage, Eisenhower continued his comments to Prichard, noting that ""men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning,"" and ""fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performances are going to be discovered."" During the Battle of the Bulge in late December 1944, Prichard wrote to Eisenhower, reminding him of what their football coach had taught them: ""If things break badly or go against you -- stay with it all the"
"Hard cases make bad law Hard cases make bad law is an adage or legal maxim. The phrase means that an extreme case is a poor basis for a general law that would cover a wider range of less extreme cases. In other words, a general law is better drafted for the average circumstance as this will be more common. The original meaning of the phrase concerned cases in which the law had a hard impact on some person whose situation aroused sympathy. The expression dates at least to 1837. It was used in 1904 by US Supreme Court Justice"
"Might makes right Might makes right is an aphorism with several potential meanings (in order of increasing complexity): The idea of ""woe to the conquered"" can be found in Homer and the hawk parable in Hesiod's ""Works and Days"" and in Livy, in which ""vae victis"", Latin for ""woe to the conquered"", is first recorded. The first commonly quoted use of ""might makes right"" in the English language was in 1846 by the American pacifist and abolitionist Adin Ballou (1803–1890), who wrote, ""But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and"
"is to say ""exactly so""; often, the word ""specifically"" can be used as a synonym, but it has many other translations. From the Urban Dictionary: Davka - ""A Yiddish word used in English by Yiddish speakers or in general speakers of Jewish-influenced English, because there's no precise English equivalent. It is variously translated as unexpectedly, just to spite, despite everything, whaddayaknow, of course, just my luck, in fact, actually... basically it's an adverb which captures the essence of Murphy's Law, 'because of course, something HAS to go wrong'."" Some pronounce it ""Dafka"". In the late 1990s and somewhat beyond, its"
"that workers have to work more and harder for less and less pay, pessimistic moods can prevail for quite some time. If, on the other hand, the bourgeois economy is expanding, the mood of society can become euphoric, and people believe that just about anything is possible. A famous leftwing slogan in May 1968 was ""tout est possible"" (""anything is possible""). Similarly, in the boom of the later 1990s, many people in rich countries believed that all human problems could finally be resolved. That is just to say that what is possible to achieve can be both pessimistically underestimated and"
"upbeat—it was a reminder to the engineers and team members to be cautious and make sure everything was accounted for, to let no stone be left unturned—not an acceptance of an uncaring uninfluenceable fate. According to David J. Hand, emeritus professor of mathematics and senior research investigator at Imperial College London, Sod's law is a more extreme version of Murphy's law. While Murphy's law says that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong (eventually), Sod's law requires that it ""always"" goes wrong with the worst possible outcome. Hand suggests that belief in Sod's law is a combination of the"
"event of some unforeseen event subsequent to the agreement which would make performance of obligations radically different from that envisaged, for instance because a car for sale is destroyed before it is delivered. Common mistake, as a doctrine, following ""The Great Peace"", analogous to frustration, can similarly be said to imply a term that a contract will be extinguished if entered into on the false pretence that performance would be possible. Terms can be implied into contracts according to the custom of the market in which the contracting parties are operating. The general rule, according to Ungoed Thomas J in"
"attire, or housing and food, that you are not as good as others, then don't be affected. Doing wrong unintentionally is called making a mistake. Doing wrong intentionally is called committing an evil. If one corrects what one has done wrong, then it's as if it hasn't happened. If one covers up, then one adds to one's guilt. 凡是人，皆须爱。天同覆，地同载。行高者，名自高。人所重，非貌高。才大者，望自大。人所服，非言大。己有能，勿自私。人所能，勿轻訾。勿谄富，勿骄贫。勿厌故，勿喜新。人不闲，勿事搅。人不安，勿话扰。人有短，切莫揭。人有私，切莫说。道人善，即是善。人知之，愈思勉。扬人恶，既是恶。疾之甚，祸且作。善相劝，德皆建。过不规，道两亏。凡取与，贵分晓。与宜多，取宜少。将加人，先问己。己不欲，即速已。恩欲报，怨欲忘。报怨短，报恩长。待婢仆，身贵端。虽贵端，慈而宽。势服人，心不然。理服人，方无言。 Human beings, regardless of nationality, race, or religion - everyone - should be loved equally. We are all sheltered by the same sky and we all live on the same planet Earth. (See for the following.) People with high conduct naturally"
"widely regarded as wrong or not necessarily a ""fringe"" belief. Similarly, the word ""quack"" is reserved for someone who promotes a medical remedy or practice that is widely considered to be ineffective; this term, however, does not imply any deep belief in the idea or product they are attempting to sell. ""Crank"" may also refer to an ill-tempered individual or one who is in a bad mood, but that usage is not the subject of this article. Although experts in the field find a crank's beliefs ridiculous, cranks are sometimes very successful in convincing non-experts of their views. A famous"
"that people attribute their successes to situational factors, for fear that others will disapprove of them looking overly vain if they should attribute successes to themselves. For example, it is suggested that coming to believe that ""good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people"" will reduce feelings of vulnerability . This belief would have side-effects of blaming the victim even in tragic situations. When a mudslide destroys several houses in a rural neighborhood, a person living in a more urban setting might blame the victims for choosing to live in a certain area or not"
"a good idea. Law Number XXXVII: Ninety percent of the time things will turn out worse than you expect. The other 10 percent of the time you had no right to expect so much. Law Number XXXVIII: The early bird gets the worm. The early worm...gets eaten. Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction. Law Number XL: Most projects start out slowly, and then sort of taper off. Law Number XLI: The more one produces, the less one gets. Law Number XLII: Simple systems are not"
"going wrong unexpectedly, and that part of science's success comes from keeping blunders ""small, manageable, constant, and trackable"". He uses the example of engineers and programmers who push systems to their limits, breaking them to learn about them. Kelly also warns against creating a culture (e.g. school system) that punishes failure harshly, because this inhibits a creative process, and risks teaching people not to communicate important failures with others (e.g. Null results). The criteria for failure are heavily dependent on context of use, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. A situation considered to be a"
"known as Murphy's law, ""Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."" Stapp is credited with creating Stapp's Law (or Stapp's Ironic Paradox) during his work on the project. It states: ""The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle."" In 1957, he was presented with the Gorgas Medal from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS). In 1973 Stapp was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal. In 1979 Stapp was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame. The New Mexico Museum of Space History, which houses the International Space Hall of"
"evidence that proponents state prove otherwise. Proponents of the term further state that people will only act irrationally in the direst of circumstances when terrible danger is imminent and no avenue of escape appears available. They argue that these disaster myths cause a negative impact when they cause people, officials, and disaster-relief organizations to make detrimental or incorrect disaster planning and response decisions. One commonly held disaster myth is that people develop an insurmountable, illogical fear in the face of a disaster. In turn, this fear becomes infectious, spreads to others, and causes people to flee without thinking and in"
"from physical acts and omissions. The more predictable the outcome, the greater the likelihood that the actor caused the injury or loss intentionally. There are many ways in which the law might capture this simple rule of practical experience: that there is a natural flow to events, that a reasonable man in the same situation would have foreseen this consequence as likely to occur, that the loss flowed naturally from the breach of contractual duties or tortuous actions, etc. However it is phrased, the essence of the degree of fault attributed will lie in the fact that reasonable people try"
"a person who is (according to the standards of the observer) generally unsuccessful or undesirable. A commercial failure is a product or company that does not reach expectations of success. Most of the items listed below had high expectations, significant financial investments, and/or widespread publicity, but fell far short of success. Due to the subjective nature of ""success"" and ""meeting expectations,"" there can be disagreement about what constitutes a ""major flop."" ""Fail"" is the name of a popular Internet meme where users superimpose a caption, often the word ""fail"" or ""epic fail"", onto photos or short videos depicting unsuccessful events"