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there are lots of laws, razors, and adages out there in the world. here are a few.
- Betteridge's Law
- Brandolini's Law
- Chesterton's Law
- Conway's Law
- Cunningham's Law
- Godwin's Law
- Goodhart's Law
- Greenspun's 10th law
- Hanlon's Razor
- Hyrum's Law
- Moore's Law
- Murphy's Law
- Pareto Principle
- Peter Principal
- Poe's Law
- Postel's Law
- Stein's Law
- Sturgeon's Law
- Zawinski's Law
Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle
Never tear down a fence gate until you know what it is for.
Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.
The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer. Also, from the French: preach the falsehood to know the truth
As an online discussion grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of a comparison to Nazis or Adolf Hitler approaches 1.
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.
The number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles about every two years.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. (And at the worst possible time.)
Roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes
People in a hierarchy tend to rise to a level of respective incompetence
Any parody of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied.
Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept.
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
Ninety percent of everything is crap
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.