July 20, 2004

Tôi thích và dùng Peter's laws(1) với những câu làm cho mình lúc nào cũng thấy vươn lên. Như: "If anything can go wrong, fix it!" (những gì có thể hư hỏng, hãy sửa nó lại). Và nhất là:
"When given a choice, take both"
"Start at the top and work your way up"
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Tương phản với Murphy's laws(2) là những câu bi quan, thường xẩy ra và được coi là lẽ đương nhiên. Tỉ dụ như: "If anything can go wrong, it will" (những gì có thể hư hỏng, sẽ hư hỏng)


(1) Peter's Laws

• If anything can go wrong, Fix it! (To hell with Murphy!)
• When given a choice -- Take both!
• Multiple projects lead to multiple successes.
• Start at the top and work your way up.
• Do it by the book...but be the author!
• When forced to compromise, ask for more.
• If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them.
• If it's worth doing, it's got to be done right now.
• If you can't win, change the rules.
• If you can't change the rules, ignore them.
• When faced without a challenge, make one.
• "No" simply means begin again at the next highest level.
• Don't walk when you can run.
• Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and bulldozer when necessary.
• When in doubt: THINK!
• Patience is a virtue but persistence to the point of success is a blessing.
• The squeaky wheel gets replaced.
• The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live.

• If anything can go wrong, it will
• If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong
• If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway
• If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop
• Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse
• If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something
• Nature always sides with the hidden flaw
• Mother nature is a bitch