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Finagle's Second Law: “No matter what the anticipated result, there will always be someone eager to (a) misinterpret it, (b) fake it, (c) believe it happened to his own pet theory.” Finagle's Third Law: “In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake. Corollaries: 1.
Hanlon's razor is a corollary of Finagle's law, named in allusion to Occam's razor, normally taking the form "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." As with Finagle, possibly not strictly eponymous.
Sod's law, a British culture axiom, states that "if something can go wrong, it will". The law sometimes has a corollary: that the misfortune will happen at "the worst possible time" (Finagle's law). The term is commonly used in the United Kingdom (while in many parts of North America the phrase "Murphy's law" is more popular). [1]
Osborn was born in Boston, on August 5, 1945. [1] His father, John Jay Sr., was a doctor at Stanford University School of Medicine; his mother was Anne (née Kidder).He was a descendant of both John Jay, [1] [2] a Founding Father and the first Chief Justice of the United States, and of railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt.
1 Differentiating Finagle's Law and Murphy's Law. 3 comments. 2 Origin - The history and true story of Murphy law. 3 comments. 3 ...
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At the very heart of Chung Kuo is the 'War of Two Directions' — a struggle for the destiny of Mankind and the clash of two different ideologies. For the planet's hereditary rulers, the T'angs, the goal is stability and security, at the expense of individual freedoms if necessary, while a commercially orientated faction desires change and the uncharted challenge of the new — even though ...
I think Murphy's law is the much better known, so this should be subsumed under Murphy's. - Oreo Priest 21:01, 29 May 2007 (UTC) I believe murphy's, finagles and sods law should be merged into one article I agree. The article begins with the phrase: Finagle's corollary to Murphy's Law. Corollary is defined in Random House (dictionary.com) as: