In response to last week’s question, “If you try to prove Murphy's Law, will something go wrong?”, my friend Richard noted, “If it can, it will. Of course, Murphy was an optimist.” My cousin Don agreed that “Murphy was an optimist. He tried to be a pessimist, but he couldn’t get it to work. If you try to prove Murphy’s Law, it will go wrong, so it will prove itself. Murphy’s Law is like gravity; it’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.
My dad’s beach buddy Bob shared, “Only if you are about to succeed in documenting it at which time your pen will run out of ink.” And my friend Royce then asked, “Was Murphy Jewish?”
My insightful friend Swany explained, “You can only prove Murphy's law by something going wrong so to be successful at it, you have to not succeed. So the only way to be successful is to fail.” To this, my neighbor Dick challenged, “Using "Fuzzy Logic"...if "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong," then none of us would be here! …or at least we would look very different. Ergo Murphy's Law is false.”
My videographer friend Ivan then extended the discussion by writing, “No, but if you try to disprove it, it will.
• If anything can go wrong, it will.
• In Proving Murphy's Law, if everything goes right, you prove the argument, and in so doing lose the argument, QED*.
• In Proving Murphy's Law, if something goes wrong, it proves the argument, and in losing, you win. QED.”
Please share your thoughts about "things that make you go 'Hmmm' “:
Is it pointless to write with a broken pencil ?
Live well...laugh often and heartily…. have a good week and never regret anything that made you smile!
Hal
I think my Dad found the irony in the email, which so many others were kind enough to overlook. He wrote that the question answered itself because the question had a typo: ….will something GOING wrong?”
(*) QED is an abbreviation for the Latin "quod erat demonstrandum" (literally, "which was to be demonstrated" or "thus it is demonstrated". It is used at the end .
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