科技领域的墨菲定律

武夷山译

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Felt's Law of the Lab :
Never replicate a successful experiment.

费尔特实验室定律：

决不要重复做一个成功的实验。

Boyle's Law :
When things are going well, someone will inevitably experiment detrimentally.

波义耳定律：

如果事情进展不错，那么必有人把实验做坏。

Murphy's Law of Technology :
You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.

关于技术的墨菲定律：

只看铁轨，判断不了火车会从哪个方向开过来。

Von Braun's Law of Gravity :
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

冯. 布劳恩（火箭专家）引力定律:

我们可以战胜重力，但有时候公文的份量让人吃不消。

Douglas's Law of Practical Aeronautics :
When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane,
the plane will fly.

道格拉斯实用航空学定律:

文档的总重量与飞机重量相等的时候,飞机才能飞起来.

1st Law of Serendipity :
In order to discover anything you must be looking for something.

关于偶然发现的第一定律：

你首先得寻找，才可能发现。

Burn's Balance :
If the assumptions are wrong, the conclusions aren't likely to be very good.

彭斯平衡律：

如果假定就是错的，结论也好不到哪儿去。

Murphy's Logical Law :
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

墨菲逻辑定律：

所谓逻辑，就是充满信心地达致错误结论的一种系统方法。

First Law of Laboratory Work :
Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass.

实验室工作第一定律：

烫烧杯与凉烧杯看上去一模一样。

Finagle's Law :
In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.

菲纳格尔定律：

在任何数据集中，明显正确、简直不需核查的那个数据就是错的。

Murphy's Law of Research :
Enough research will tend to support your theory.

墨菲科研定律：

足够深的研究往往能支持你的理论。

Mr. Cooper's Law :
If you do not understand a particular word in a piece of technical writing, ignore it. The piece will make perfect sense without it.

库伯先生定律：

如果你看不懂技术文献中的一个特定的词，就跳过去。没有这个词，全篇的意义不会受影响。

The Golden Rule of Arts and Science :
Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

关于艺术与科学的黄金定律：

拥有黄金者制定规则。

Murphy's Law of Super Speciality :
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

关于超级相对论的墨菲定律：

所谓专家就是对越来越小的领域了解得越来越深的人，到了最后，他对无穷小领域的了解达到无穷大。

Harvard Law :
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, any experimental organism will do as it damn well pleases.

哈佛定律：

在压力、温度、体积、湿度及其他变量都受到最严格控制的条件下，任何实验动物照样是想咋的就咋的。

Saunder's Discovery :
Laziness is the mother of nine inventions out of ten.

桑德之发现：

在百分之九十的情况下，懒惰乃发明之母。

Young's Handy Guide to Modern Sciences :

If it is green or wiggles - it is Biology.
If it stinks - it is Chemistry.
If it doesn't work - it is Physics.

年轻人适用的现代科学便携指南：

若见到某物是绿色的且蠕动，此处是生物学。

如果味道难闻，此处是化学。

如果某物老是不工作，此处为物理学。

Paradox of Selective Equality :
All things being equal, all things are never equal.

选择性平等悖论：

在万物平等的条件下，并非万物都是平等的。

Gilbs's Law of Unreliability :
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.

基尔伯的不可靠性定律：

对于每个归结于计算机故障的失误，你会发现至少有两桩是人犯的错误，其中一项错误就是责怪计算机。

Golub's Law of Computerdom :
A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.

格拉波计算定律：

规划草率的项目的完成时间是期望完成时间的三倍，规划周密的项目的完成时间只不过是期望完成时间的两倍。

Troutman's Law of Computer Programming :
Profanity is the one language all programmers know well.

特劳特曼计算机编程定律：

有一种语言是所有编程者都很熟悉的，那就是骂人话。

 

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