資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Finagle's Law
     
         The generalised or "folk" version of {Murphy's Law},
        fully named "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives" and usually
        rendered "Anything that can go wrong, will".  One variant
        favoured among hackers is "The perversity of the Universe
        tends toward a maximum".
     
        The label "Finagle's Law" was popularised by SF 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.
     
        [{Jargon File}]
     
        (1995-12-14)