Finagle’s Law


prov. the generalized or `folk’ version of murphy’s law, fully named “finagle’s law of dynamic negatives” and usually rendered “anything that can go wrong, will”.

the label `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. some technical and scientific cultures know it under the name sod’s law; this usage may be more common in great britain.
anything that can go wrong, will.

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