Il secondo libro di Murphy: Nuovi motivi per cui le cose vanno storte!

by Arthur Bloch, Ed Powers (Illustrator), Luigi Spagnol (Translator)

Nel marzo del 1988 l'esistenza di un corpo, ampio e sviluppato, di teorie sul cosmo e sull'esistenza umana, chiamato Murfologia, fu rivelata dall'ignara popolazione italiana dall'uscita del nostro primo volume: La legge di Murphy e altri motivi per cui le cose vanno a rovescio! Da allora sono venuti a formarsi, in tutta la penisola, nuovi circoli filosofici, nuove scuole di pensiero, e perfino nuove sette religiose, tutte nel nome di Ed Murphy, già ingegnere della Nasa, e del suo profeta, Arthur Bloch. A Napoli, il circolo Murfista del Mezzogiorno tiene ormai da vari mesi corsi serali e cicli di conferenze per un sempre più numeroso pubblico di entusiasti. A Perugia il Centro Internazionale Murfisti ha intrapreso uno studio di Murfologia Comparata dei Popoli allo scopo di comprendere come la Legge e i suoi Derivati possano modificarsi a seconda della società in cui vengono applicati. A Milano gli Amici di Murphy hanno recentemente festeggiato il loro millesimo socio, ma contano di arrivare a duemila in brevissimo tempo. "Cresciamo come i rami di un albero in piena salute", ha dichiarato il presidente degli Amici di Murphy. A Vicenza è nata la Chiesa di Murphy, e a Torino si narra di riti murfisti, praticati nelle segrete di antichi castelli, nelle notti di luna nuova.
Un nuovo importante capitolo viene ora ad aggiungersi alla storia del Murfismo in Italia. Nuove rivelazioni vi attendono; una nuova saggezza entrerà in voi per illuminarvi sui Modi dell'universo; nuove verità vi si schiuderanno e faranno di voi delle persone molto peggiori. Murfisti di tutta Italia: unitevi e comprate!

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Reference

124 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[John Naylor · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received this book from a friend who probably thinks I am cynical. It was also first published over 40 years ago so times have changed but there is still some truth here.

It is what I will describe as a "toilet book". Read a little at a time and you won't lose your place. It also contains phrases and "laws" that predate the publication and also ones that have been used in other media since.

It is hard to rate books like this. They do appeal to a lot of people as they are easily read and occasionally humorous. They just are not reads that you remember later.

[Gaetano · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anche in questo libro si possono trovare varie perle di saggezza. Un libro che non può mancare nella libreria di nessuno in modo da avere la giusta citazione al momento adatto. Davvero molto divertente!

[Sergio Rey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es un libro bastante interesante en el que como dice el título te cuenta diferentes adaptaciones a diferentes ámbitos de la Ley de Murphy, desde la Murphyologia de oficina a la Murphyologia médica hasta la Sociomurphyologia. Es un libro muy divertido y fácil de leer que seguro te gustará.

[Manu Castro Arce · Rating 3 out of 5]

Es un libro entretenido, sólo eso. Lectura rápida, pero que definitivamente no recordarás después.

[Igor Gligorijevic · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Ako do samog kraja duge
za srećom stigneš iz daleka,
tamo je Marfi da ti kaže
na drugom kraju sreća te čeka.”

(Bert Whitney, dobronamerni čitalac)

* MARFIJEV ZAKON

Ako nešto može poći naopako, poći će naopako!

SCHNATTERLY-jev REZIME POSLEDICA

Ako nešto ne može poći naopako, poći će naopako!

SILVERMAN-ov PARADOKS

Ako i Marfijev zakon može poći naopako, poći će naopako.

PROŠIRENI MARFIJEV ZAKON

Ako niz događaja može poći naopako, poći će naopako u najgorem mogućem redosledu.

GATTUS-ovo PROŠIRENJE MARFIJEVOG ZAKONA

Ništa nije toliko loše da ne može postati gore.

LYNCH-ov ZAKON

Kad zagusti svi bi da zbrišu.

EVANS-ov I BJORN-ov ZAKON

Bez obzira šta je pošlo naopako, uvek postoji neko ko je znao da će to poći naopako.

ZAKON OBELODANJENJA

Što više kriješ - više se vidi.

LANGSAM-ovi ZAKONI

1. Sve zavisi.
2. Ništa nije zauvek.
3. Sve je ponekad.

GROSSMAN-ovo POGREŠNO CITIRANJE H.L. MENCKEN-a

Složeni problemi imaju proste, lako razumljive, netačne odgovore.

DUCHARME-ov PROPIS

Šansa se uvek pojavljuje u najnepovoljnijem trenutku.

FLUGG-ov ZAKON

Kada ti zatreba da “kucneš u drvo”,
shvatiš da je svet napravljen od aluminijuma i plastike.

IMBESI-jev ZAKON O ODRŽANJU NEČISTOĆE

Da bi nešto postalo čisto, nešto drugo se mora zaprljati.

FREEMAN-ovo PROŠIRENJE

...ali se sve može zaprljati a da ništa ne postane čisto.

RUNE-ovo PRAVILO

Ako ti je svejedno gde si, onda se nisi izgubio.

COIT-MURPHY-jev STAV O SNAZI NEGATIVNOG PRISTUPA

Nemoguće je da optimist bude prijatno iznenađen.

GLAVNA ZAVRZLAMA

Optimist veruje da živimo u najboljem od svih mogućih svetova.
Pesimist se plaši da je to istina.

WITTEN-ov ZAKON

Kad god podsečes nokte, zatrebaće ti čas kasnije.

ZAKON PISMA

Najbolji način da se setiš šta si još hteo da napišeš jeste da zapečatiš pismo.

WALLACE WOOD-ovo PRAVILO CRTANJA

1. Nikad ne crtaj ono što možeš iskopirati.
2. Nikad ne kopiraj ono što možeš precrtati.
3. Nikad ne precrtavaj ono što možeš iseći i prilepiti.

ZAKONI FOTOGRAFA

1. Šansa za najbolji snimak ukazuje se neposredno pošto je film utrošen.
2. Ostali najbolji snimci obično su načinjeni kroz poklopac objektiva.
3. Preostali najbolji snimci biće uništeni kada neko neočekivano otvori vrata mračne komore.

SER WALTER-ov ZAKON

Dim uvek ide u lice najosetljivije osobe.

PERKINSON-ov POSTULAT

Što su veći, jače udaraju.

HARRISON-ov POSTULAT

Svaka akcija ima jednaku i suprotno usmerenu - kritiku.

WHISTLER-ov ZAKON

Nikad se ne zna ko je u pravu, ali se uvek zna ko se pita.

OSNOVNI PRINCIP SOCIO-EKONOMIKE

U hijerarhijskom sistemu nivo plate
menja se obrnuto sa neprijatnošću i teškoćom poslova.

DINGLE-ov ZAKON

Kada neko nešto ispusti, niko to neće podići, ali će ga zato svi šutnuti.

PFEIFER-ov PRINCIP

Nikada ne donosi odluku ako je drugi može doneti umesto tebe.
Obrazloženje:
Niko ne vodi evidenciju o odlukama koje si mogao doneti a nisi.
Svi vode evidenciju o lošim odlukama koje si doneo.

WELLINGTON-ov ZAKON O VLASTI

Krem se diže ka vrhu.
Isto tako i pena.

HECHT-ov ^ETVRTI ZAKON

Nema boljeg trenutka od sadašnjeg da odložiš ono što ne želiš raditi.

DRUGI RADIONIČKI PRINCIP

Većina poslova zahteva tri ruke.

RAY-evo PRAVILO PRECIZNOSTI

Meri mikrometrom.
Obeleži kredom.
Seci sekirom.

PETI ZAKON KANCELARIJSKE MARFOLOGIJE

Vitalni dokumenti pokazuju svoju vitalnost spontano se premeštajući
sa mesta gde su ostavljeni na mesto gde ih ne možes naći.

FINAGLE-ovo VEROVAWE

Nauka je istinita.
Nemoj da te činjenice zavedu.

PRIGODAN VODIČ ZA MODERNU NAUKU

Ako je zeleno ili mrda, to je biologija.
Ako smrdi, to je hemija.
Ako ne funkcioniše, to je fizika.

PRAVILO LENJIRA

Nema takve stvari kao što je prava linija.

PETI ZAKON NEPOUZDANOSTI

Grešiti je ljudski, ali da se stvarno zabrlja potreban je kompjuter.

LEO BEISER-ov PRVI KOMPJUTERSKI AKSIOM

Kad nešto smestiš u memoriju, zapamti gde si to smestio.

LIEBERMAN-ov ZAKON

Svi lažu; ali nema veze, ionako niko ne sluša.

PRINCIP KOBASICE

Ako voliš kobasice i poštuješ zakone,
nikad ne analiziraj od čega se prave.

TOOD-ova PRVA DVA POLITIČKA PRINCIPA

1. Bez obzira šta vam govore, nikad ne govore celu istinu.
2. Bez obzira o čemu vam pričaju, pričaju vam o parama.

WEBER-ova DEFINICIJA

Stručnjak je onaj ko zna sve više i više o sve manjem i manjem
dok ne sazna apsolutno sve o ničemu.

HAWKINS-ova TEORIJA PROGRESA

Progres se ne sastoji u zameni pogrešne teorije tačnom.
Sastoji se u zameni pogrešne teorije drugom, neprimetnije pogrešnom.

COCHRANE-ov AFORIZAM

Pre nego započneš test, odluči šta ćeš uraditi ako je
1. pozitivan ili
2. negativan.
Ako su oba odgovora ista, ne radi test.

TODD-ov PRVI ZAKON

Ako svi imaju iste uslove, ti gubiš.
Ako su tvoji uslovi povoljniji, ti opet gubiš.

JENSEN-ov ZAKON

Pobeđuješ ili gubiš, uvek gubiš.

VAN ROY-ev ZAKON

Nesalomiva igračka služi za lomljenje drugih igračaka.

KOVAČOVA ZAVRZLAMA

Pogrešan broj nikad nije zauzet.

BEDFELLOW-ovo PRAVILO

Onaj ko hrče uvek prvi zaspi.

ROBY-jev PRINCIP BLISKIH SUSRETA

Verovatnoća da sretneš poznanika povećava se kad si s nekim s kim ne želiš da te vide.

CHEIT-ova TUŽBALICA

Ako pomogneš prijatequ u nevolji,
sigurno je da će te se setiti – sledeći put kad mu zatrebaš.

DENNISTON-ov ZAKON

Vrlina je sama sebi kazna.

PARDO-ov PRVI POSTULAT

Sve što vredi u životu ili je nezakonito ili nemoralno ili pak deblja.

STEINKOPFF-ovo PROŠIRENJE PARDO-ovog PRVOG POSTULATA

Dobre stvari u životu takođe uzrokuju rak na laboratorijskim miševima
i oporezuju se preko svake mere.

JACOBS-ov ZAKON

Grešiti je qudski.
Svaliti krivicu na drugog još je qudskije.

LEO ROGERS-ov BLAGOSLOV DRUGOM IZDANJU

Ako nešto vredi terati, vredi i preterati.

JAFFE-ovo PRAVILO

Postoje neke stvari koje se ne mogu znati - ali je nemoguće znati koje su to stvari.

MUIR-ov ZAKON

Kad pokušamo da nešto pojedinačno okarakterišemo,
ustanovimo da ima veze sa svačim na svetu.

POSLEDNJI ZAKON

Ako nekoliko stvari koje su mogle da krenu naopako nisu,
bilo bi mnogo bolje za njih da su krenule naopako.

6/10

[Bontix · Rating 4 out of 5]

Molto carino, ma La legge di Murphy secondo me fa più ridere! xD

[Gayatri · Rating 4 out of 5]

At first, this book really cheered me up. I was feeling PMS symptoms creeping in and didn't know what would help, luckily this was in my path to brighten up my evening with a few pessimistic laughs.

I'm generally an optimistic person that believes the Universe ultimately plans everything in our favor, yet it was good to revel in the delight of this book's cynicism for a while. It explained the unexplainable phenomenon of our aggrandized egos, and how imperfection is inherent to being human.

I kept reading because I felt like I could finish it within one day, which I did. The Pavlov's dog effect of occasionally really funny lines made me do it, and of course it's the ones that you have stories in your past to prove them right which made them funny.

I took a star off because when I got towards the end of it, I could feel the pessimistic mindset creeping in. I intentionally cultivate an optimistic mindset because it just feels better, so I don't think I'll be living my the laws of this book fully.

I do think it's a great thing to pull out with friends. I imagined myself doing this with some good pals and laughing at the giant absurdity of life.

I'm also going to use it to infuse humor into my spiritual social justice work from now on (as both these disciplines can get bogged down with seriousness and would really benefit from the humor of this book). As the Laughing Buddha embodies: true enlightenment is when you can laugh even when it's tough! 😄

[Иосеф · Rating 3 out of 5]

A silly goofy quick read, humorous and truthful all at once.

If I travelled to the end of the rainbow/As Dame Fortune did intend,/Murphy would be there to tell me,/The pot's at the other end. (7)
DIGIOVANNI'S LAW: The number of Laws will expand to fill the publishing space available. (7)
LEO ROGER'S BLESSING FOR VOLUME II: If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (7)
THE FIFTH (and only) RULE: You have taken yourself too seriously. (7)
CARDINAL CONUNDRUM: The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. The Pessimist fears this is true. (10)
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will. (11)
And where else to look, when prediction has failed is, but to retrospection. (12)
Whether we suffer from regret (over things we didn't do) or remorse (over things we did), every once in a while we will smile when things go wrong just because smiling is more important than things. (12)
THE LAST LAW: If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong. (12)
MURPHY'S LAW: If anything can go wrong, it will. (14)
THE EXTENDED MURPHY'S LAW: If a series of events can go wrong, it will do so in the worst possible sequence. (14)
EVANS' AND BJORN'S LAW: No matter what goes wrong, there is always somebody who knew it would. (15)
BENEDICT'S PRINCIPLE (formerly Murphy's Ninth Corollary): Nature always sides with the hidden flaw. (15)
LANGSAM'S LAWS: 1. Everything depends. 2. Nothing is always. 3. Everything is sometimes. (15)
GROSSMAN'S MISQUOTE OF H. L. MENCKEN: Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand wrong answers. (15)
IMBESI'S LAW OF THE CONSERVATION OF FILTH: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty. Freeman's Extension: ...but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean. (16)
FERGUSON'S PERCEPT: A crisis is when you can't say "let's forget the whole thing." (18)
NAESER'S LAW: You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it danmfoolproof. (18)
CAFTERIA LAW: The item you had your eye on the minute you walked in will be taken by the person in front of you. (20)
HARRISON'S POSTULATE: For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. (26)
LOFTUS' THEORA ON PERSONNEL RECRUITMENT: 1. Far-away talent always seems better than home-developed talent. (28)
PFEIFER'S PRINCIPLE: Never make a decision you can get someone else to make. (31)
Corollary: No one keeps a record of decisions you could have made, but didn't. Everyone keeps a record of your bad ones. (31)
LUPOSHAINSKY'S HURRY-UP-AND-WAIT PRINCIPLE: If you're early, it'll be cancelled. If you knock yourself out to be on time, you will have to wait. If you're late, you will be too late. (32)
HECHT'S FOURTH LAW: There's no time like the present for postponing what you don't want to do. (33)
GROSSMAN'S LEMMA: Any task worth doing was worth doing yesterday. (33)
DEHAY'S AXIOM: Simple jobs always get put off because there will be time to do them later. (34)
WETHERN'S LAW OF SUSPENDED JUDGEMENT: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups. (34)
FIRST LAW OF LABORATORY WORK Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass. (39)
GROUND RULE FOR LABORATORY WORKERS: When you do not know what you are doing, do it neatly. (39)
FINAGLE'S EIGHTH RULE: Teamwork is essential. It allows you to blame someone else. (39)
HANDY GUIDE TO MODERN SCIENCE: 1. If it's green or it wriggles, it's biology. 2. If it stinks, it's chemistry. 3. If it doesn't work, it's physics. (39)
GREER'S THIRD LAW: A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. (42)
LIEBERMAN'S LAW: Everybody lies; but it doesn't matter, since nobody listens (44)
THE SAUSAGE PRINCIPLE: People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either one being made. (44)
TODD'S FIRST TWO POLITICAL PRINCIPLES: 1. No matter what they're telling you, they're not telling you the whole truth.
EVANS'S LAW: If you keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then you just don't understand the problem. (45)
MARS'S RULE: An expert is anyone from out of town. (48)
WEBER'S DEFINITION: An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. (49)
MATZ'S MAXIM: A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. (50)
MEYER'S LAW: It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple. (51)
HLADE'S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man -- he will find an easier way to do it. (51)
ROMINGERS RULES FOR TEACHERS: 2. If daily class attendance is mandatory, a scheduled exam will produce increased absenteeism. If attendance is optional, a scheduled exam will produce persons you have never seen before. (60)
SIX PRINCIPLES FOR PATIENTS: 5. THe pills to be taken with meals will be the least appetizing ones. (62)
MATZ'S RULE REGARDING MEDICATIONS: A drug is that substance which, when injected into a rat, will produce a scientific report. (63)
MURRAY'S RULES OF THE ARENA: 4. Hockey is a game played by six good players and the home team. (66)
HERTZBERGS FIRST LAW OF WING WALKING: Never leave hold of what you've got until you've got hold of something else. (66)
FIRST LAW OF TRAVEL: It always takes longer to get there than to get back. (70)
CHEIT'S LAMENT: If you help a friend in need, he is sure to remember you -- the next time he's in need. (89)

[Külli · Rating 5 out of 5]

Murphy seadused ja selle kogu raamatu sisu võiks kõik mällu talletada, sest kõik need seadused ja laiendused ja täiendused ja printsiibid ja paradoksid on tsiteerimist väärt, aga tänapäeval saab neid google’st lugeda. Neid tsiteeritakse ikka ja osa seadusi on meie igapäevasesse kõnepruuki juurdunud ja põhjusega, sest lihtsalt paremini ei saa öelda.

[Pato15 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesante para pasar el rato.

[vicky ♪]

me jijié.

[Andrea · Rating 1 out of 5]

Se già il primo diventava ripetitivo e noioso, con questo abbiamo toccato il fondo!
Un libro forzato per racimolare qualche lira in più, nelle vendite!

[The_J · Rating 3 out of 5]

If not a laugh riot, at least a laugh conflict.

[Terézia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Knižku som našla doma a namiesto toho, aby som sa učila na maturity alebo prečítala niečo z mojich 4 rozčítaných kníh, zhltla som toto na jedno posedenie.

Nie je to ťažké čítanie, je to zábavné v tom, že všetci sme už raz zažili tie "naschvály osudu," keď sme zmenili čakací rad len preto, aby sa ten, v ktorom sme čakali predtým, zrýchlil; alebo keď si limitovaný tovar v obchode, ktorý potrebujeme/chceme kúpi zákazník pred nami (veď preto sme robili vývar bez petržlenu). Je to frustrujúce, ale zároveň vtipné. Také veci aké si človek nevymyslí. Nedávno naplánovali výlet na jeden zo slovenských hradov a len čo sme vyrazili zo päť slovenských kuriérov ohlásilo že nám doručujú zásielku.

Avšak v každom prípade, nechcela by som dávať tejto knihe privysoké hodnotenie, lebo neustále opakovanie o tom, ako sa to v živote dokáže zvrtnúť po chvíľke začne nudiť, a to akokoľvek sa vieme zamyslieť nad vecami ako je Kardinálny hlavolam: Optimista verí, že žijeme v tom najlepšom možnom svete. Pesimista sa obáva, že je to pravda.. Samozrejme, je to aj preto, lebo celkovo nejestvujú v živote také dichotómie ako objektívne zlé a dobré. Hej, nestihol si autobus, ale aspoň si v ňom nebol keď potom narazil do toho vlaku, nie?

(úryvok z úvodu) Niekoľko ľudí protestovalo proti Murphyho zákonom na základe tvrdenia, že odporujú našej tradičnej viere v závažnosť Pozitívneho myslenia. (to bude asi len čisto americká vec, to pozitívne myslenie) Môj pocit je, že akékoľvek takéto snahy stotožňovať Zákony s pesimizmom a negativizmom je prinajlepšom prejavom krátkozrakosti, ak nie (čo je pravdepodobné) hlboko zakoreneného nedocenenia.

Pretože kritériá nášho postoja nie sú v rovine optimizmus-pesimizmus, v ktorej nás murphológov treba chápať napriek prvému dojmu. Samotné zákony nenaznačujú žiadne takéto tendencie. Kľúč k ich transcendentnej filozofickej povahe sa skrýva v tušení "pokazenosti", a jeho verbálny konštrukt by sa nemal chápať ako návod, že "dobré" a "zlé" sú objektívne javy a nie subjektívne postoje.

Takže vlastne dve hviezdičky - je to ok.

[Karen-Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Advanced Murphology.
Laws of Truth in Reporting
The closer you are to the facts of a situation the more obvious are the errors in all news coverage of the situation.

The further you are from the facts of the situation the more you tend to believe news coverage of the situation.

[Charles · Rating 3 out of 5]

I never read the first one in this series but this one is pretty funny, and largely correct.

[Don Gubler · Rating 3 out of 5]

Love the additional rules.

[Alessandro Schümperlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Altro giro, altra corsa altea cosa che potrà andare male.
Secondo libro della serie, va preso con leggerezza e con una punta di sano cinismo

[Sylvia · Rating 4 out of 5]

You will shake your head in agreement as you read these.