Este es uno de los libros que me marcó. A pesar de tener un humo muchas veces tonto y otras predecible, las leyes de Murphy han moldead no solo mi humor sino mi filosofía de vida, el fatalismo con sonrisa, por así llamarlo. Como aquel chiste, entre el optimista y el pesimista:
Optimista: - Como esto siga así, ¡vamos a tener que comer mierda!
Pesimista: - No va a haber mierda para todos...
En cualquier caso las Leyes de Murphy son la vida misma. Hay libros que intentan explicar la Ley de Murphy, pero siempre van a ser explicaciones parciales. La Ley de Murphy es porque es, y es la que es.
Hay mucha gente a la que no le gusta este tipo de humor mezclado (a nivel coloidal) con la realidad. Este libro y el principio de Peter son dos ejemplos de mi visión humorística de la realidad. Y los amo los dos. ( )

Have you ever received a phone call the minute you sat down on the toilet? Has the bus you wanted ever appeared the instant you lit up a cigarette? Has it ever started raining on the day you washed your car, or stopped raining just after you bought an umbrella? Perhaps you realized at the time that something was afoot, that some universal principle was just out of your grasp, itching to be called by name. Or perhaps, having heard of Murphy's Law, the Peter Principle or the Law of Selective Gravity, you have wanted to invoke one of these, only to find that you have forgotten its exact wording.
Here, then, is the first compilation in book form of the wit and wisdom of our most delightfully demented technologists, bureaucrats, humanists and anti-social observers, prepared and presented with the purpose of providing us all with a little Karmic Relief. The listing has been made as definitive as possible. In researching these interdisciplinary tenets, we found numerous redundancies (which verify the validity of the observations), frequent conflicting claims to authorship, and scores of anonymous donations.