Laws of life

1991/09/01 Angulo, Patxi Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Matematika

but there are other laws that are fulfilled in our ordinary life, such as those based on experience. We talked about them.

There are laws, axioms, rules, .. in all fields of knowledge. There is the famous Law of Physics Gravitation, the Law of Great Numbers of Mathematics, the Law of Chemistry Avogadro, the Law of University Autonomy of Law, the My Principle of Psychology, the Laws of Intermediate Perspective, the Phonological Linguistic Evolution.

But there are other laws that are fulfilled in our ordinary life, such as those based on experience. We will talk about them in this article entitled Laws of Life.

It must be said that these laws have a pessimistic tone and most can be recognized as a consequence of Murphy's laws. And the Murphy Laws say:

1. If something can go wrong, it will go wrong.
2. If something can be mistaken, it will be wrong.
3. Even though something cannot go wrong, it will go wrong.
4. If things are left free they are wrong by themselves. If we try to do something they will be wrong with our help.
5. Everything seems normal, because something has forgotten us.

Although these five laws are very pessimistic, we have to give them for good because our own experience confirms this. We just have to go to life. If you put yourself in the supermarket or bank box row, the other rows always move faster and if you change the rows what you left will start moving faster. You are preparing a fish and want to give it the final touch with a lemon. When you want to draw your water always comes the first drop in your eyes, right?. The guarantee of the musical equipment you bought a week ago was finalized and today, when placing a disc, the arm of the dish has remained in his hand. First breakdown for a year. So we could continue without interruption, but we began to indicate the laws.

First law of the bicycle

Whatever the direction of cycling, there will always be wind up and down.

Eligible Gravity Act

The tool that falls from our hands will always fall down or to the unbeatable place or on the most fragile element.

Axiom of responsibilities

If several people are responsible for a mistake, no one will be guilty.

Lemon fish

Put the fish in your eyes and point the lemon anywhere.

Principles of computer programming

1. The computer is never wrong.
2. The programmer is always wrong.

Peter's Principle

In every hierarchy, each person rises and remains at his level of incompetence.

Peter's Principle Corollary

At some point, all positions in a hierarchy will be filled with incompetence.

Biological research law

Any substance that punctures a rat generates a scientific report is a drug.

Measurement Rule

Measure, measure twice, cut once.

Murphy's Analytical Laws

1. In any data collection, the figures that are clearly straight are wrong.
2. A decimal number is often not in place.
3. If an error can be entered in a calculation, it will be included. In addition, the calculation will appear when it can be affected to a greater extent.
4. If you get an incorrect solution in a mathematical calculation, try multiplying it by the page number.

Principle of compensation of efforts

A higher level of narcotics means greater effort to achieve this.

Rule of sale

In sales, the only suit you like and that you have well is not cheaper.

Coffee Law

In the struggle between one and the world we must defend the world.

Discovery of packaging

Currently a food bag generates two bags of waste.

Aeromodelling

Large, solitary trees create a magnetic field that attracts everything that flies.

Accounting legislation

1. Balances are not based.
2. The capital of the work does not work.
3. Fluidity tends to dry out.

Those are other laws that have no name, but they are no less important. These are also the fruit of experience and indicate the strength of life.

• There are no problems, even if it is very difficult, that after analyzing them in depth are not complicated anymore.
• If something that has gone wrong has not gone wrong, the greatest damage is because it is waiting for the moment.
• After a long wait for the bus, it will appear ten seconds after lighting the cigarette.
• The probability of getting into the first trash can decreases as you approach the trash.
• The easier the math exercise you're trying to explain, the faster you realize that intelligence has limits, but nonsense doesn't.
• Under the conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity and other strictly controlled variables, the organism reacts to its taste.
• Friends can come and go, enemies accumulate.
• A computer can make as many mistakes as twenty years for two seconds.
• What is clearly correct in a data collection, which does not require verification, is an error.

Finally, and finally, we will mention two other axioms that can summarize the above:

Although the above laws are very pessimistic, there will always be another more pessimistic one.

Although the previous law is very pessimistic, there are more pessimistic laws like this.