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I went down the rabbit hole of eponymous laws
Here are some great ones that I liked.
Let's start with my favorite one:
"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."
- Murphy's law
Here are some great ones that I liked.
Let's start with my favorite one:
"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."
- Murphy's law
"Any software that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScript."
- Atwood Law
- Atwood Law
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
- Acton's dictum
- Acton's dictum
"A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
- One of the Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics
- One of the Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics
"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."
- Segal's Law
- Segal's Law
"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."
- Brandolini's Law
- Brandolini's Law
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
- Sagan standard
- Sagan standard
"nonessential elements of a story must be removed."
- Chekov's gun
- Chekov's gun
"Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget."
- Cheops Law
- Cheops Law
"The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong answer"
- Cunningham's law
- Cunningham's law
"Any sufficiently large problem can be efficiently parallelized"
- Gustafson's Law
- Gustafson's Law
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's razor
- Hanlon's razor
"The simplest explanation is usually the right one"
or
"entities should not be multiplied without necessity"
- Occam's razor
or
"entities should not be multiplied without necessity"
- Occam's razor
"no matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else"
- Joy's Law
- Joy's Law
"Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral."
- First Law of Kranzberg's laws of technology
- First Law of Kranzberg's laws of technology
"What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating."
- Newton's flaming laser sword (Alder's Razor)
- Newton's flaming laser sword (Alder's Razor)
"Any attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely."
- Streisand Effect
- Streisand Effect
"Software gets slower more quickly than hardware gets faster."
- Wirth's Law
- Wirth's Law
