tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21578561.post-64956199421768457252006-11-14T22:55:00.000+01:002006-11-14T23:06:42.612+01:00<p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/833/2634/1600/tnZZZZZZTVCXX0407201332PIC.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/833/2634/320/tnZZZZZZTVCXX0407201332PIC.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">I hav</span><span lang="EN-GB">e b</span><span lang="EN-GB">een a devotee of <a href="http://roso.epfl.ch/dm/murphy.html">Murphy’s Law</a> for years now and I thought I would share a few of my favourites wi</span><span lang="EN-GB">th all of you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">As an optimist, I try and embrace the good side of life and to persecute relentlessly the things that could make my life a living hell if I let them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">In this context <a href="http://roso.epfl.ch/dm/murphy.html">Murphy’s Laws</a> are at the absolute opposite of my optimism as they are all extremely pessimistic but, as in everything it is usually the things that we don’t agree with that make us smile, my post on Borats movie attempted to highlight the need to express and laugh about things even if we don’t agree with them at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Hence, after this preparatory speech here are the above mentioned quotes:<o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">General Laws</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">“If anything can go wrong, it will”<o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">“If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">“Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.”<o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">“If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">“Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.”<o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">“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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Love Laws<o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">“The amount of love someone feels for you is inversely proportional to how much you love them.”<o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">“The qualities that most attract a woman to a man are usually the same ones she can't stand years later.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">“Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won't either.”<o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">“If the effort that went in research on the female bosom had gone into our space program, we would now be running hot-dog stands on the moon.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">And remember “Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.”<o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Until tomorrow,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p face="verdana" style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Good night<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21578561-6495619942176845725?l=samosa-blog.blogspot.com'/></div>74Z4http://www.blogger.com/profile/07575119249206196890noreply@blogger.com2