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Arthur Bloch (born January 1, 1948) is an American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books. [1] He has also written a self-help satire called Healing Yourself with Wishful Thinking . Since 1986 he has been the producer and director of the Thinking Allowed PBS television series.
Arthur Bloch compiled a number of books of corollaries to Murphy's law and variations thereof, the first being Murphy's Law, and Other Reasons Why Things Go WRONG, which received several follow-ups and reprints. [20] Yhprum's law is an optimistic reversal of Murphy's law, stating that "anything that can go right will go right". Its name ...
The adage was a submission credited in print to Ronald M. Hanlon of Bronx, New York , in a compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law published in Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong! (1980). [1] A similar quotation appears in Robert A. Heinlein's novella Logic of Empire (1941). [2]
In some cases the person named has coined the law – such as Parkinson's law. In others, the work or publications of the individual have led to the law being so named – as is the case with Moore's law. There are also laws ascribed to individuals by others, such as Murphy's law; or given eponymous names despite the absence of the named person ...
The theorem may have also been relayed to Bloch in conversation with his acquaintance Harris Freeman, who he knew from University of California, Santa Cruz, and who had found a collection of "laws", including Murphy's Law, Ginsberg's Theorem, and many others, somewhere on the ARPANET (a precursor of the Internet) in the mid 1970s while working ...
Arthur Bloch (born 1948), American writer, author of Murphy's Law Augustyn Bloch (1929–2006), Polish composer and organist Avraham Yitzchak Bloch (1891–1941), Lithuanian rabbi
The following statement is attributed as Hänggi's law: [citation needed] The more trivial your research, the more people will read it and agree. It is labeled as a kind of Murphy's law and it was first seen in Arthur Bloch's work. [2] However, the attribute's relation to Professor Hänggi's research is not clear. Corollaries:
Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr. (January 11, 1918 – July 17, 1990 [1]) was an American aerospace engineer who worked on safety-critical systems. He is best known for his namesake "Murphy's law", which is said to be "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong".