很棒的一套书。Arthur Bloch 写的《墨菲定律及各种搞砸的缘由》（Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things go ƃuoɹʍ）是工程和组织管理格言的集大成者。它本身提供的洞见相对有限，但其中的许多原则本身都可以追溯到更言之有物的……
A good set. Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things go ƃuoɹʍ is a compendium of engineering and organisational dictums. Of itself it provides relatively little insight, but many of the principles themselves trace to more substantive…
……观点。我自己的职业生涯跨越了几十年，经历过大公司和小公司、老牌企业和新兴公司，也干过几段体制内的活儿。这事儿最让我联想起来的，是一本翻得破破烂烂的 Arthur Bloch 的《墨菲定律：以及事情搞砸的其他原因》（Murphy's Law: and other reasons things go ƃuoɹʍ）。你可以在这里找到大部分内容：http://www.murphyslaws.net/edition.htm 那是在一条航天工程师们常跑的州际长途公路的休息站里……
…point. My own career spans decades, large companies and small, old and new, and a few stints of government work as well. The thing this reminds me most of all is a very time-worn copy of Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law: and other reasons things go ƃuoɹʍ. You can find most them here: http://www.murphyslaws.net/edition.htm It was at a highway rest stop on one of the long Interstate routes favored by aerospace engineers…
……来自 Joseph E. Bigler 的说明，指出这句引语最早出自宾夕法尼亚州斯克兰顿的 Robert J. Hanlon 之手，是他为 Arthur Bloch 编撰出版的《墨菲定律第二卷：事情搞砸的更多原因！》（Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong!，1980年）所投稿的一则墨菲定律相关笑话（书中注明了出处）。随后在 2002 年，Jargon File 词条也记录了同样的出处。关于这个想法更早的归属可以追溯到……
…from Joseph E. Bigler explaining that the quotation originally came from Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, Pennsylvania, as a submission (credited in print) for a book compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law published in Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong! (1980). Subsequently, in 2002, the Jargon File entry noted the same. Earlier attributions to the idea go back to at…
> “请求宽恕比寻求许可容易得多” 这句话更早出现在 Arthur Bloch 的《墨菲定律第二卷》（1980年）http://freakonomics.com/2010/06/24/quotes-uncovered-forgiven...
> “It is easier to get forgiveness than permission” appears earlier in Arthur Bloch, Murphy’s Law Book Two (1980) http://freakonomics.com/2010/06/24/quotes-uncovered-forgiven...
For an entry in a joke book, it has done a surprising amount of damage. edit - specifically, that mighty tome of great knowledge; 'Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong!', by Arthur Bloch.
…within a factor of two-ish) weeks (52 weeks -> 104 months (0.867 decades). I'm not claiming this is accurate, I'm stating that it's a heuristic I'm familiar with. This may have been in Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Things Go Wrong, though I'm not finding it in comparable collections. Possibly from project planning literature I was reading in the 1990s (DeMarco & Lister, Brooks, Boehm, McConnell,…
很棒的一套书。Arthur Bloch 写的《墨菲定律及各种搞砸的缘由》（Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things go ƃuoɹʍ）是工程和组织管理格言的集大成者。它本身提供的洞见相对有限，但其中的许多原则本身都可以追溯到更言之有物的……
A good set. Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things go ƃuoɹʍ is a compendium of engineering and organisational dictums. Of itself it provides relatively little insight, but many of the principles themselves trace to more substantive…
……观点。我自己的职业生涯跨越了几十年，经历过大公司和小公司、老牌企业和新兴公司，也干过几段体制内的活儿。这事儿最让我联想起来的，是一本翻得破破烂烂的 Arthur Bloch 的《墨菲定律：以及事情搞砸的其他原因》（Murphy's Law: and other reasons things go ƃuoɹʍ）。你可以在这里找到大部分内容：http://www.murphyslaws.net/edition.htm 那是在一条航天工程师们常跑的州际长途公路的休息站里……
…point. My own career spans decades, large companies and small, old and new, and a few stints of government work as well. The thing this reminds me most of all is a very time-worn copy of Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law: and other reasons things go ƃuoɹʍ. You can find most them here: http://www.murphyslaws.net/edition.htm It was at a highway rest stop on one of the long Interstate routes favored by aerospace engineers…
……来自 Joseph E. Bigler 的说明，指出这句引语最早出自宾夕法尼亚州斯克兰顿的 Robert J. Hanlon 之手，是他为 Arthur Bloch 编撰出版的《墨菲定律第二卷：事情搞砸的更多原因！》（Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong!，1980年）所投稿的一则墨菲定律相关笑话（书中注明了出处）。随后在 2002 年，Jargon File 词条也记录了同样的出处。关于这个想法更早的归属可以追溯到……
…from Joseph E. Bigler explaining that the quotation originally came from Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, Pennsylvania, as a submission (credited in print) for a book compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law published in Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong! (1980). Subsequently, in 2002, the Jargon File entry noted the same. Earlier attributions to the idea go back to at…
> “请求宽恕比寻求许可容易得多” 这句话更早出现在 Arthur Bloch 的《墨菲定律第二卷》（1980年）http://freakonomics.com/2010/06/24/quotes-uncovered-forgiven...
> “It is easier to get forgiveness than permission” appears earlier in Arthur Bloch, Murphy’s Law Book Two (1980) http://freakonomics.com/2010/06/24/quotes-uncovered-forgiven...
作为一本笑话书里的词条，它造成的破坏力大得惊人。编辑补充——具体来说，就是那部蕴含无穷智慧的皇皇巨著：Arthur Bloch 写的《墨菲定律第二卷：事情搞砸的更多原因！》。
For an entry in a joke book, it has done a surprising amount of damage. edit - specifically, that mighty tome of great knowledge; 'Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong!', by Arthur Bloch.
……大概翻一倍以内的浮动）周（52 周 -> 104 个月（0.867 个年代））。我不是说这很精准，只是说这是我很熟悉的一个经验法则（heuristic）。这可能出自 Arthur Bloch 的《墨菲定律及其他出错的原因》，不过我在类似的书集里没翻到。也可能来自我 90 年代读过的项目规划文献（DeMarco & Lister、Brooks、Boehm、McConnell……
…within a factor of two-ish) weeks (52 weeks -> 104 months (0.867 decades). I'm not claiming this is accurate, I'm stating that it's a heuristic I'm familiar with. This may have been in Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Things Go Wrong, though I'm not finding it in comparable collections. Possibly from project planning literature I was reading in the 1990s (DeMarco & Lister, Brooks, Boehm, McConnell,…