墨菲定律科技法则的格言

翟红东

注：墨菲定律（英文名：Murphy's Law），亦称莫非定律、莫非定理、或摩菲定理，是西方世界常用的俚语。墨菲定律主要内容是：事情如果有变坏的可能，不管这种可能性有多小，它总会发生。最简单的表达形式是“有可能出错的事情，就会出错（Anything that can go wrong will go wrong）。
　□ Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's work
　　■ 没什么比看到老板老老实实的干一天活更能激励员工的了。
　　□ Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book
　　■ 一些人喜欢按图索骥，甚至有时他们都不知道是谁画的图，或甚至于是什么图。
　　□ To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most
　　■ 如何甄别专家？那个认为该项目需要最长时间并需耗费最多资金的家伙就是。
　　□ Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable
　　■ 电脑靠不住，人更靠不住。靠人维护的所有系统当然也靠不住。
　　□ If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious
　　■ 如果你没法理解一件事，说明这件事在直觉上是显而易见的。
　　□ In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totaled correctly after 4:30 p.m. on Friday. The correct total will become self-evident at 8:15 a.m. on Monday
　　■ 不管任何建筑设计，大样图是不会在周五下午四点半以后校正合成的。周一早上八点十五分以前它会自动校正合成。

　□ The only perfect science is hind-sight
　　■ 仅有的完美的科学就是马后炮。
　　□ If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist
　　■ 对于今天来说，如果不存在电脑里的，那就是不存在的。
　　□ When all else fails, read the instructions
　　■ 怎么也搞不定的话，看一看操作说明吧。
　　□ Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner
　　■ 工具总是掉在那些不容易捡的角落里。