Finagle's law Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The
adage Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives is the generalized or "
folk" version of
Murphy's law, and usually rendered:
- Anything that can go wrong, will.
One variant (known as O'Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law) favored among
hackers is
- The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.
(but see also
Hanlon's razor). The term "Finagle's Law" was first used by John W. Campbell, Jr, the influential editor of
Astounding Science Fiction (later
Analog). He used it frequently in his editorials for many years in the 1940s to 1960s but it never came into general usage the way
Murphy's Law has. Eventually the term "Finagle's law" was popularized by
science fiction author
Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this "Belter" culture professed a religion and/or
running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.
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