La legge di Murphy: E altri motivi per cui le cose vanno a rovescio!

by Arthur Bloch, Eleanore Fahey (Illustrator)

Nel 1949, l'ingegnere aereonautico dell'aviazione americana capitano Ed Murphy, osservando l'andamento dei propri esperimenti ebbe a dire: "Se qualcosa può andar male, lo farà". Prova della 'verità' di questa affermazione è il fatto che Ed Murphy, nel giro di pochi anni è diventato famosisimo in tutto il mondo: non per le sue scoperte in aereonautica, del resto inesistenti, ma per quella frase, che immediatamente si diffuse sotto il nome di "Legge di Murphy". Oggi "la legge di Murphy" in America è talmente famosa da comparire nei dizionari, come: "Il principio per cui qualsiasi cosa possa andare male lo farà" (Fank and Wagnalls, "Standard College Dictionary"). Laboratori, uffici, circoli di golf, redazioni, banche, palestre, università, biblioteche, studi di dentisti, di avvocati, di fiscalisti, di ingegnieri, di architetti, persino ospedali, sale operatorie, cessi sono immancabilmente tappezzati di manifesti, calendari, adesivi che ricordano la "Legge di Murphy" e le sue applicazioni. L'insieme delle Leggi e Osservazioni di cui la "legge di Murphy" è da considerarsi capostipite è stato raccolto da Arthur Bloch nel 1977 nel presente libretto, per la prima volta tradotto in italiano, dopo essere stato un best-seller mondiale. Una raccolta che è un inventario del pessimismo esistenziale, una professione di fede in leggi dell'universo volte sempre e comunque contro di noi, in un Dio che ha creato l'uomo essenzialmente per ridere alle sue spalle. Un libro, però, che ci offre anche l'antidoto più antico e sicuro contro l'irritazione e il malumore: la sana, vecchia risata.

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Reference, Contemporary, Comedy, American

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[Nadia · Rating 3 out of 5]

قوانين عن الحياة أساسها أنه اذا كان هناك شئ سيئ على وشك الحدوث فسيحدث لا محال.

[Suni · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un classico.
Fa ridere e annuire, con un numero considerevole di perle a cui però fa da contraltare un altro buon numero di battute che suonano un po' ripetitive o non troppo sagaci.
Comunque se vi capita leggetelo, tanto ci si mette un attimo.

[Madiha Ahmed · Rating 3 out of 5]

من منا لا يعرف قوانين مورفي وارتباطها بأشهر سلسلة تسويق ورعب للكاتب أخمد خالد توفيق. رحمه الله عبر شخصيتها الأشهر د.رفعت إسماعيل حين يردد قوله:


"كل شىء قابل للتعطل سوف يتعطل"
" أن كل خطأ وارد الحدوث سوف يحدث لا محالة"

الكتاب ممتع ويضم قوانين " النحس" للأمور التي تحدث لنا جميعا في شتى شؤون الحياة وقد استمدها
إدوار مورفي -الذي كان مهندسا برتبة نقيب في الجيش الأمريكي - من الطبيعة وفيزياء حدوث الأشياء خاصة بعد حادثة ارتكاب أحد العاملين خطاءً في توصيل الإمدادات الكهربائية.

كذلك ضم الكتاب العديد من فرضيات وقوانين خبراء في الهندسة والفيزياء والعلوم الأخرى بطريقة سرد كل قانون وما ينص .عليه مع رسومات بسيطة .

المبهر في تلك القوانين الموضوعة من قبل الخبراء ستجدها تنطبق علينا جميعا وستتذكر كل تلك السلسة من الحوادث السيئة
في حياتك الممتدة

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📌اقتباس

الفرضية الرابعة عشرة لأتوود:

‏“حين تعير الكتب للآخرين ، لن يضيع منها سوى الذي تفضله أكثر”

‏هذا قانون خطير من قواعد سبارك:

‏“ لا تنخرط في الجدال ولكن إذا حوصرت اطرح سؤالا لا صلة له بالموضوع واستند إلى الوراء بابتسامة راضية بينما يحاول خصمك استيعاب ما يحدث ثم غير الموضوع بسرعة”

مسلمة تشان:
"عندما تفشل مل الطرق، اقرأ التعليمات"

فرضية أنطوني
" ضمن الأحداث القادمة، قد تسقط أي أداة لتتجه أولا على أصابع قدميك في كل مرة"

[Daniele Palma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tanti piccoli spunti sui quali divertirsi e riflettere, oggi lo possiamo definire un insieme di aforismi simpatici.
Bello, un po’ pessimista ma è fatto così

[Tanya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Изключително забавно четиво с много истини за живота. Добър старт на 2021. :)

[Himanshu · Rating 3 out of 5]

First Law of Socio-Genetics:
Celibacy is not hereditary.

The Airplane Law:
When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

Parkers Law:
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

Mr. Cole's Axiom:
The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

[Devero · Rating 4 out of 5]

Qualcuno dice che non sono leggi di natura, come le altre leggi della fisica, chimica, biologia. Dice che sono solo il risultato di alcuni aneddoti ed osservazioni. Ebbene, costoro mentono: la realtà è davvero come descritta da queste semplici leggi.

[Methos · Rating 4 out of 5]

ma quante volte avrò detto "oddio,ma è vero!" leggendolo?! esilarante!

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

No se preocupe por lo que otros piensen de usted. Están demasiado ocupados preocupándose por lo que usted piensa de ellos.

[Keni Vásquez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Morí de risas muchas veces.

[madus · Rating 3 out of 5]

chatin

[Yuvaraj kothandaraman · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book title comes from a genuine historical event that occurred in 1949 at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Captain Ed Murphy, a development engineer from Wright Field Aircraft Lab, was frustrated with a strap transducer [a device that measures stress or pressure using electrical signals] that kept malfunctioning because of incorrect wiring. He remarked, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he will do it," referring to the technician who wired it. Project manager George Nichols assigned the name "Murphy's Law" to this observation. When Colonel J.P. Stapp, who was conducting crash testing experiments, later mentioned in a press conference that their exceptional safety record was due to their belief in Murphy's Law and their efforts to deny the inevitable, the phrase spread rapidly. Within months, manufacturers were referencing it in advertisements, and Murphy's Law became a widespread cultural phenomenon.

The full principle became: "If anything can go wrong, it will." The book collects this law and hundreds of related observations, corollaries [additional conclusions that follow from a main principle], and variations created by various observers, scientists, engineers, and philosophers. It's essentially a satirical [humorous mockery] examination of how things consistently go wrong in life.

The book is organized into 12 main chapters plus additional sections, each focusing on a different area of life where Murphy's Law applies:

The book begins with a preface explaining the actual origin of Murphy's Law, then an introduction by author Arthur Bloch discussing the universal nature of failure and disorder. The introduction notes that this book represents "wit and wisdom from delightfully demented technologists, bureaucrats, humanists, and anti-social observers" and is offered to provide "Karmic Relief"- comfort through understanding that chaos is universal and expected.


CHAPTER 1: MURPHOLOGY (The Core Laws)
🔴 This chapter presents the fundamental principles. Murphy's Law and its corollaries [additional related laws] form the foundation:

"If anything can go wrong, it will."

The corollaries [related conclusions] that follow this law are:

Nothing is as easy as it looks

Everything takes longer than you think

If several things can go wrong, the one causing the most damage will go wrong

If you prevent four possible failures, a fifth will suddenly appear

Things left alone tend to worsen

Before doing something, something else must be done first

Every solution creates new problems

You cannot make anything foolproof because fools are too clever

Nature always sides with the hidden flaw

Mother nature is a bitch [is unforgiving/cruel]

The Murphy Philosophy states: "Smile...tomorrow will be worse."

Other key laws in this section include:

O'Toole's Commentary on Murphy's Law: "Murphy was an optimist"—meaning that even Murphy's pessimistic outlook was too hopeful.

Zymurgy's Seventh Exception to Murphy's Law: "When it rains, it pours"—meaning that problems don't come singly; they arrive in clusters.

Gumperson's Law: "The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability"—the less you want something to happen, the more likely it will.

Ginsberg's Theorem presents three fundamental truths about existence:

You can't win

You can't break even

You can't even quit the game

Freeman's Commentary explains how major philosophies respond to Ginsberg's Theorem: Capitalism assumes you can win; Socialism assumes you can break even; Mysticism assumes you can quit the game.

Sod's First Law: "When a person attempts a task, they will be thwarted by the unconscious intervention of some other presence"—whether animate or inanimate. However, some tasks do get completed because that intervening presence is also attempting a task and is subject to interference.

Sod's Second Law: "Sooner or later, the worst possible set of circumstances is bound to occur."

Simon's Law: "Everything put together falls apart sooner or later."

Rudin's Law: "In crises that force people to choose among alternative courses of action, most people will choose the worst one possible."

Ehrman's Commentary: "Things will get worse before they get better. Who said things would get better?"

The chapter also introduces Everix's Second Law of Thermodynamics [the branch of physics dealing with heat and energy], which states that confusion always increases in society. Only if someone works extremely hard can this confusion be reduced to order in a limited region. Nevertheless, this effort will still result in an increase in total confusion overall.

Cole's Law gets a humorous definition: "Thinly sliced cabbage"—which is actually Cole slaw, not a principle at all. This joke appears at the very end of the book.

CHAPTER 2: APPLIED MURPHOLOGY
🟠 This chapter applies Murphy's Law to practical situations. It contains specific observations about how things go wrong in real-world applications:

Klipstein's Laws Applied to General Engineering:

A patent application will be preceded by one week by a similar application made by an independent worker

Firmness of delivery dates is inversely proportional [opposite relationship] to the tightness of the schedule

Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term (for example, velocity in furlongs per fortnight instead of standard measurements)

Any wire cut to length will be too short

Klipstein's Laws Applied to Prototyping and Production:

Tolerances [acceptable variations in measurements] will accumulate toward maximum difficulty to assemble

If a project requires 'n' components, there will be 'n-1' units in stock

A motor will rotate in the wrong direction

A fail-safe [a protective mechanism designed to prevent failure] circuit will destroy others

A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection

A purchased component will meet its specs just long enough to pass incoming inspection, then fail

After removing the last of 16 mounting screws from an access cover, you discover you removed the wrong cover

After securing an access cover with 16 hold-down screws, you discover the gasket [a seal to prevent leakage] was omitted

After assembling an instrument, extra components will be found on the bench

The chapter includes laws for engineers, specifically the Universal Laws for Naive Engineers, which include observations like:

Any error in calculation will be in the direction of most harm

The best approximation [close estimate] of service conditions in the laboratory will not meet actual service conditions

The most vital dimension on any plan is most likely to be omitted

Major changes in construction will always be requested after fabrication is nearly completed

Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order will be

Interchangeable parts won't be interchangeable

Manufacturer's performance specifications should be multiplied by 0.5

Salespeople's claims should be multiplied by 0.25

Other notable applied laws:

Atwood's Fourteenth Corollary: "No books are lost by lending except those you particularly wanted to keep."

Johnson's Third Law: "If you miss one issue of any magazine, it will be the issue containing the article you most wanted to read." Its corollary states all your friends either missed it, lost it, or threw it out.

Harper's Magazine's Law: "You never find an article until you replace it."

Richard's Complementary Rules of Ownership:

If you keep anything long enough, you can throw it away

If you throw anything away, you will need it as soon as it is no longer accessible

Glatium's Law of Materialistic Acquisitiveness: "The perceived usefulness of an article is inversely proportional to its actual usefulness once bought and paid for"—you want something more before you have it than after you possess it.

Lewis's Law: "No matter how long or hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper."

Perlsweig's Law: "People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity."

Laws of Gardening include observations like:

Other people's tools work only in other people's gardens

Fancy gizmos don't work

If nobody uses it, there's a reason

You get the most of what you need the least

Etorre's Observation: "The other line moves faster"—a universal truth about standing in any line.

Boob's Law: "You always find something the last place you look"—obviously, because you stop looking once you find it.

CHAPTER 3: DESIGNSMANSHIP
🟡 This chapter focuses on design and planning problems:

Osborn's Law: "Variables won't [vary]; constants aren't [constant]"—everything behaves opposite to expectations.

Klipstein's Law of Specification: "In specifications, Murphy's Law supersedes Ohm's"—meaning practical reality overrides theoretical engineering principles.

First Law of Revision: "Information necessitating a change of design will be conveyed to the designer after, and only after, the plans are complete." Its corollary notes that in simple cases of obvious right versus obvious wrong, it's sometimes wiser to choose the wrong way to expedite subsequent revision.

Second Law of Revision: "The more innocuous [harmless-seeming] the modification appears to be, the further its influence will extend and the more plans will have to be redrawn."

Third Law of Revision: "If field dimensions are finally supplied as they actually are instead of as they were meant to be when completion is imminent, it is always simpler to start all over."

Law of the Lost Inch: "In designing any construction, no overall dimension can be totaled correctly after 4:40 p.m. on Friday." Its corollaries note that minor dimensions given in sixteenths of an inch cannot be totaled at all under these conditions, and the correct total becomes self-evident at 9:01 a.m. Monday.

Laws of Applied Confusion describe how physical materials misbehave:

The one piece the plant forgot to ship is the one supporting 75% of the balance

Truck deliveries that normally take one day take five when you're waiting

One piece in any structure should not be mismarked, and the plant will cross you up on exactly that piece

Wyszkowski's Theorem: "The manufacturer shall use arbitrary units convertible [changeable] to the supplier's or customer's only by weird and unnatural conversion factors."

The Snafu Equations include:

Any problem with 'n' equations will always have 'n+1' unknowns

The most needed object will be the least available

Once you exhaust all possibilities and fail, there will be one obvious solution visible to everyone else

Badness comes in waves

Laws of Computer Programming:

Any given program, when running, is obsolete

Any given program costs more and takes longer

If a program is useful, it will have to be changed

If a program is useless, it will have to be documented

Any program will expand to fill all available memory

The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the programmer's capability

CHAPTER 4: MACHINESMANSHIP
🟢 This chapter focuses on how machines fail:

Law of Selective Gravity: "An object will fall so as to do the most damage." Jenning's Corollary: "The chance of bread falling buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet." Klipstein's Corollary: "The most delicate component will be the one to drop."

Sprinkle's Law: "Things always fall at right angles."

Anthony's Law of the Workshop: "Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner." Its corollary states that on the way to the corner, it will first strike your toes.

The Spare Parts Principle: "The accessibility during recovery of small parts which fall from the work bench varies directly with the size of the part and inversely [opposite way] with its importance."

Johnson's First Law: "When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time."

Law of Annoyance: "When working on a project, if you put away a tool you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly."

Watson's Law: "The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional to the number and significance of any persons watching it"—machines fail more frequently when important people are observing them.

Wyszkowski's Second Law: "Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough."

Sattinger's Law: "It works better if you plug it in."

Lowery's Law: "If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway."

Schmidt's Law: "If you mess with a thing long enough, it'll break."

Fudd's First Law of Opposition: "Push something hard enough and it will fall over."

Anthony's Law of Force: "Don't force it; get a larger hammer."

Horner's Five-Thumb Postulate: "Experience varies directly with equipment ruined."

Cahn's Axiom: "When all else fails, read the instructions."

Cooper's Law: "All machines are amplifiers"—they amplify [increase] both success and failure.

Jenkinson's Law: "It won't work."

CHAPTER 5: RESEARCHMANSHIP
🔵 This chapter mocks scientific research and how findings are manipulated:

Gordon's First Law: "If a research project is not worth doing at all, it is not worth doing well."

Murphy's Law of Research: "Enough research will tend to support your theory"—researchers find what they're looking for.

Maier's Law: "If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of [removed/ignored]." Its corollaries note that bigger theories are better, and experiments are successful if no more than 50% of observed measurements must be discarded to obtain correspondence with theory.

Williams and Holland's Law: "If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical [numerical analysis] methods."

Edington's Theory: "The number of different hypotheses [proposed ideas] erected to explain a given biological phenomenon is inversely proportional to available knowledge."

Harvard Law: "Under the most rigorously [strictly] controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism [living creature] will do as it damn well pleases."

Young's Law: "All great discoveries are made by mistake." Its corollary: "The greater the funding, the longer it takes to make the mistake."

Fett's Law of the Lab: "Never replicate [repeat] a successful experiment."

Wyskowski's First Law: "No experiment is reproducible [able to be repeated with same results]."

Futility Factor: "No experiment is ever a complete failure, it can always serve as a negative example."

Parkinson's Law for Medical Research: "Successful research attracts the bigger grant which makes further research impossible."

Meskinmen's Law: "There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over."

CHAPTER 6: HIERARCHIOLOGY examines organizations. Heller's Law: "Management doesn't exist; nobody knows what's happening." The Peter Principle: "Employees rise to their incompetence level." Peter's Observation: "Super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence." Imhoff's Law: "Bureaucracies work like septic tanks—big chunks rise to top." Parkinson's Laws: "Work expands to fill time, expenditures rise to meet income, expansion causes complexity decay." Putt's Law: "Technology is run by those who understand but don't manage, or manage without understanding."

CHAPTER 7: COMMITTOLOGY covers committees. Shanahan's Law: "Meeting length rises with the square of attendees" - double people, quadruple meeting time. Law of Triviality: "Committees spend most time on least expensive items." Hendrickson's Law: "Meetings become more important than the problems they address." Laws of Procrastination show it shortens jobs, reduces anxiety, gains status, avoids interruptions, and may eliminate work entirely.

CHAPTER 8: ACCOUNTSMANSHIP applies laws to finance. Parkinson's First Law: "Work expands to fill available time." Parkinson's Second Law: "Expenditures rise to meet income." Westheimer's Rule: "Estimate task time, multiply by 2, change units to next highest. One-hour task gets 2 days." The Ninety-Ninety Rule: "First 90% takes 90% of time; last 10% takes other 90%." Cheops's Law: "Nothing gets built on schedule or within budget."

CHAPTER 9: EXPERTSMANSHIP examines expertise. Gummidge's Law: "The more expert you are, the less ordinary people understand." Weinberg's Corollary: "Experts avoid small errors while committing grand failures." Clarke's Laws: Revolutionary ideas evoke three reactions (impossible, not worth doing, I said it was good all along), elderly scientists are usually right about possibilities but wrong about impossibilities, and sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

CHAPTER 10: HUMANSHIP covers relationships. Beckham's Law: "Beauty times brains equals constant"—prettier people are less intelligent. Issawi's Law of Conservation of Evil: "Total evil remains constant; reducing it in one direction increases it elsewhere." Mr. Cole's Axiom: "Earth's intelligence is constant while population grows." Jones's Motto: "Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate."

CHAPTER 11: METALAWS discusses laws about laws. Cooper's Metalaw: "New laws create new loopholes."

CHAPTER 12: COLE'S LAW ends with a pun: "Thinly sliced cabbage" (Cole slaw). Final observations include: "Everything is in utter disorder," "Nothing is accomplished by reasonable men," "Man occasionally finds truth but usually picks himself up and continues on."


"Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong" is a timeless classic that deserves its place in popular culture. It's funny, insightful, and painfully honest about how the world works. While it offers no solutions and occasionally feels dated, its fundamental wisdom remains unshakeable: life is complicated, things go wrong, and there's comfort in accepting that truth.

The book is best enjoyed not as a manual or guide, but as a commiserative [sympathetic and supportive] friend who understands your frustrations and helps you laugh about them. In that role, it succeeds brilliantly.

My rating:4/5 star

[Kaitlyn Bolton · Rating 4 out of 5]

The backdrop of this read was a beautiful Northland tiny house looking out onto stunning farmlands. Boasting a deck of one’s dreams & more stars than you could gaze at for an hour and a half. Hosts provided several fluffy blankets worn while watching shooting stars ✨💫🪐🍷

10/10 will be staying here again & tucking into something else on the bookshelf ✨

[Dumitru Moraru · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cred că aţi auzit de Legea lui Murphy, el a fost un inginer american la United States Air Force. ,,Dacă ceva poate să meargă prost, va merge prost”, aşa sună această lege. În timp ce lucra, a declarat despre asistentul său că „Dacă are vreo posibilitate de a greși, o va face”. Cu timpul s-au adăugat alte legi şi s-a format murphologie. Iată câteva exemple:
1. Dacă un experiment reuşeşte din prima, înseamnă că ceva nu ai făcut bine.
2. Fiecare problemă rezolvată generează (cel puţin) o problemă nerezolvată.
3. A fura idei de la cineva este plagiat. A le fura de la mai mulţi este cercetare.
4. Singurul moment în care şeful trece prin biroul tău este momentul în care te aşezi comod şi te relaxezi.
5. Munca în echipă este esenţială. Ea îţi permite întotdeauna să dai vina pe altcineva.
6. Dacă ajuţi un prieten la nevoie, te va ţine minte. Data viitoare cînd va avea nevoie de ceva, va apela tot la tine.
7. Să greşeşti este uman, dar să dai vina pe altcineva este şi mai uman.
8. Cel care rîde la urmă, probabil nu a înţeles gluma.
9. Expertul este o persoană care a făcut toate greşelile posibile într-un domeniu foarte restrîns de activitate.
10. Zâmbeşte, mâine va fi mai rău!
11. Atâta timp cât nu-ţi pasă unde eşti, nu te poţi rătăci.
12.Lenea este mama a nouă invenţii din zece.
13. Mereu găseşti uşor ceea ce nu cauţi. Iar ceea ce cauţi găseşti abia în ultimul loc în care poţi căuta.
14. De fiecare dat când îţi tai unghiile, constaţi că după aceea ai nevoie de ele.
15. Tot ce e bun: ori e imoral, ori este ilegal, ori îngraşă.
16. Nimic nu este atât de prost, încât să nu devină şi mai prost.
17. Nu te lua niciodată la bătaie cu oamenii urâți, nu au nimic de pierdut.
18. Ceea ce numim păcat la alţii, pentru noi este experiment.
19. Oportunitatea îţi bate la uşă în cel mai puţin oportun moment.
20. Creativitatea este minunată, însă plagiatul este mai rapid.
21. Nu poți să cazi de pe podea.
22. Ce nu ți s-ar întâmpla, totul deja s-a întâmplat cu unul din cunoscuții tăi, doar că a fost și mai grav.
23. Toate descoperirile mari se fac din greșeală.
24. Severitatea unei mâncărimi este invers proporțională cu accesibilitatea.
25. Întotdeauna îți vor lipsi sau timpul, sau banii.
26. Dacă nimic altceva nu te mai ajută, citește în sfârșit instrucțiunea.
27. Niciodată nu îți ajunge timp să faci lucrul cum se cuvine, dar pentru a-l reface se găsește timp.
28. Coada la care nu stai tu, se mișcă întotdeauna mai repede.

[Bontix · Rating 5 out of 5]

06.02.2024
A distanza di 10 anni la mia opinione non è affatto cambiata. Trovo geniale soprattutto la prima parte, che mi fa sganasciare nonostante sia la pura verità.
Le mie preferite:

LEGGE DI MURPHY
Se qualcosa può andar male, lo farà.

Corollari
3. Se c'è una possibilità che varie cose vadano male, quella che causa il danno maggiore sarà la prima a farlo.
7. Ogni soluzione genera nuovi problemi.
8. I cretini sono sempre più ingegnosi delle precauzioni che si prendono per impedirgli di nuocere.
9. Per quanto nascosta sia una pecca, la natura riuscirà sempre a scovarla.
10. Madre Natura è una put*ana.


04.07.2014
ADORO MURPHY!
Essendo una persona molto pessimista, ho adorato questo libricino. Murphy la sapeva lunga! xD

[Georgiana 1792 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Prima e Seconda Osservazione di Georgiana


Prima osservazione di Georgiana:

Se il bicchiere è mezzo vuoto, tenderà a svuotarsi sempre di più

Seconda osservazione di Georgiana:

Se il bicchiere è mezzo pieno, sicuramente l'acqua non è potabile

[Danni · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a short read and it is really funny. I liked it a lot. There is even an address to send in your own Murphyism. Such a good idea. It slams everybody.

[Georgia · Rating 5 out of 5]

It 's a great read and gave me lots of smiles and laughter throughout a -not going so well- flight back home.
Many truths are written in the book so it 's a MUST.
I 'm going to re-read for sure !!

[Sofia · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

[Suzie Q · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wasn't what I thought it was going to be, but had some clever "laws"

[Asher · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is the true international law.

[Andrej Sumer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very short but also - very funny book :)

[Alex L · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun read going over the different principles and extensions of Murphy's Law

[Davide · Rating 5 out of 5]

Favoloso. E' la giustificazione pseudoscientifica della più nera sfortuna, applicata a tutti gli ambiti. E sono leggi dolorosamente vere... Un esempio? Le probabilità che una fetta di pane imburrato cada dalla parte del burro sono direttamente proporzionali al valore del tappeto... Ha ragione? :-)

[Virginia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Librito entretenido, con frases cortas que describen situaciones de lo más diversas y que, curiosamente, siempre aciertan. por lo demás se te hace un poco aburrido y pesado estar leyendo solamente frases.

[Antonio Torres · Rating 5 out of 5]

Es la segunda vez que lo leo, hacia muchos años, esta vez Max que divertido que lo es , me ha parecido muy real , algunas afirmaciones son tal cual en tu día a día y en tu trabajo , seas lo que seas …

[أبو فاطمة 14 · Rating 4 out of 5]

قرأت الترجمة العربية الصادرة من صفحة سبعة للنشر عام ٢٠٢٢ بترجمة محمد وهبان

كتاب خفيف لطيف في حوالي ١٠٠ صفحة... يضم مجموعة من المقولات التي تملك الطابع التهكمي والسخرية من الأحداث المنحوسة و غير المنطقية

للقراءة السريعة و زرع الابتسامة

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Estroso, irriverente, da ridere.
Un titolo alternativo poteva essere "Come la sfiga regola le leggi di noi poveri disgraziati". Una lettura affabilissima. Da ricordare è l'assioma di Bramati: "tutto suda".

[Igor Gligorijevic · Rating 3 out of 5]

6/10

[Keren Verna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Al comienzo me partí de la risa. Luego se torna un poco repetitivo. Pero muy recomendable para esos días de bajón.