nNEZOU's Murphy's Law Calendar

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Flugg's Rule

The slowest checker is always at the quick checkout lane.

一番のろいチェッカーはいつもクイックレジカウンターにいる

 

フラッグの規則

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Newchy's Law

The probability of being observed is in direct proportion to the stupidity of your actions.

人に見られている確率は、やっていることの馬鹿さ加減に比例する

 

ニューチーの法則

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The Queue Principle

The longer you wait in line, The greater the likelihood that you are standing on the wrong line.

 

一つの列に長く並んでいればいるほど、間違った列に並んでいる可能性が大きい

 

列の原理

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Mann's Proposition

Any politician who perceives the problem insists upon full credit for its solution.

ある問題を提起した政治家は、その解決策に全面的に貢献したということの名誉を求める

 

マンの命題

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Murray's Law

Law sufficiently complex is indistinguishable from no law at all.

複雑な法則は、法則がないのと区別がつかない

 

マレーの法則

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Medawar's Law

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

 

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Stevenson's Law

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limit.

天才とバカの違いは、天才は限界を知っていることである

 

スティーブンソンの法則

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Poole's Policy

He who laughs, lasts.

笑う奴が長生きする

 

プールの信条

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Swipple's rule of order

He who shouts loudest has the floor.

一番大きな声で叫ぶ奴がフロアを支配する

 

スウィップルの命令の規則

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Carson's Comment

When turkeys mate they think of swans.

 

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Hoffer's Law

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

人を自分のしたいことを自由にできるようにさせておくと、通常はお互いを真似をする

 

ホッファーの法則

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Gandhi's Principle

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

人生には、スピードを上げるより他にやることがある

 

ガンジーの信念

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Armstrong's Law

If the check really is in the mail, it is made out to someone else.

小切手が本当に入っているのであれば、それは他の人宛の物だ

 

アームストロングの法則

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Air Force Axiom

Consistency is always easier to defend that correctness.

一貫性を保つことは正しさを保つより常に易しい

 

空軍の金言

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Aman's Law

Management will try to fine-tune the solution before it defines the problem.

管理職は問題の定義の前に解決策の微調整をしようとする

 

エイマンの法則

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Alt's Axiom

A parent always worry about the wrong child.

親は常に悪い子供のことを心配する

 

アルトの金言

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First Military Law

If the enemy is in range, so are you.

敵が射程内に入ったなら、自分達もそうだ

 

軍事の第一法則

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Twain on Religion

Profanity is  a relief denied even to prayer.

 

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Sweeney's Law

The length of a progress report is inversely proportional to the amount of progress.

進捗報告書の長さは、実際の進捗の量に反比例する

 

スウィーニーの法則

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O'Brien's Variation on Etorre's Observation

If you change lines, the one you just left will start to move faster than the one you are now in.

列を替えたなら、それまでいた列が、今自分のいる列より早く流れ出す

 

オブライエンのエトールの観察のバリエーション

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Etorre's Observation

the other line moves faster.

他の列は早く流れる

 

エトールの観察

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Putt's Law

Technology is dominated by two types of people — those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what the do not understand.

テクノロジーは不種類の人間によって支配されている — 自分がそれを管理していないことを理解してい人々と、理解できないことを管理している人々とによって

 

プットの法則

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Joe's Law

The inside contact that you have developed at great expense is the first person to be let go in any reorganization.

大きな犠牲を払って作った内部の連絡先の人間は、組織再編で最初に転出して行く

 

ジョーの法則

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Levenson's Law

It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.

賢明であることは簡単だ。口にしてはいけないバカなことを考え、それを言わないことだ

 

レベンソンの法則

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Glatum's Law of Materialistic Acquisitiveness

The perceived usefulness of an article is inversely proportional to its actual usefulness once bought and paid for.

ある物を買う前に感じる有用さは、支払った後に感じるそれに反比例する

 

グラタムの唯物論的貪欲

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Loftus's Law of management

Some people manage by the book, even though they don’t know who wrote the book or even what the book is.

本に書いてあることに従って管理しようとする人がいる。誰が書いたのか、またその本が何なのか知らないままに

 

ロフタスの管理の法則

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Johnson's Law

If there are two objects in your pocket and you try to remove either one, they both come out.

Corollary

Every objects has to be removed before you get the one you want.

 

ポケットの中の二つの物のうち一つを取り出したい時は二つとも出て来る

推論

欲しいものを取り出すには全部取り出す必要がある

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Jones's Law

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.

物事が悪くなっているのに笑っていられる人間は、それを誰かのせいにできると思っているからである

 

ジョーズの法則

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The Denali Principal

When a mammalogist and an ornithologist go exploring, the mammalogist will spot the golden eagle and the ornithologist will spot the grizzly bear.

哺乳類学者と鳥類学者が探検に出かけると、哺乳類学者は ゴールデンイーグルを発見し、鳥類学者はグリズリーベアを発見する

 

デナリの原理

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Crockett's Caveat

Your worst humiliation is only someone else’s momentary entertainment.

お前の最悪の失態ですら他人にとっては一時の余興

 

クロケットの但し書き

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Smolik's Rule

A politician always be there when he needs you.

政治家は、自分を必要としている時にはいつもそこにいる

 

 

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