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Kranzberg's First Law of Technology - Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.
Amara's law - "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run".
Hofstadter's law - "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law." It was created by Douglas Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach.
Brooks' law - Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. Named after Fred Brooks, author of the well known book on Project Management, The Mythical Man-Month.
Conway's Law - Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it. Named for Melvin Conway.
Zawinski's law - Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Greenspun's Tenth Rule - Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. Coined by Philip Greenspun.
Parkinson's law - "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Coined by C. Northcote Parkinson(1909-1993), who also coined its corollary, "Expenditure rises to meet income." In computers - Programs expand to fill all available memory.
Roemer´s law - a hospital bed built is a bed filled
Keynes' Law - Demand creates its own supply
Peter principle - "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." Coined by Dr. Laurence J.
Peter (1919-1990) in his book The Peter Principle. In his follow-up book, The Peter Prescription, he offered possible solutions to the problems his Principle could cause.
Dilbert Principle - Coined by Scott Adams as a variation of the Peter Principle of employee advancement. Named after Adams' Dilbert comic strip, it proposes that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
Hanlon's razor - A corollary of Finagle's law, normally taking the form "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.". As with Finagle, possibly not strictly eponymous. Alternately, "Do not invoke conspiracy as explanation when ignorance and incompetence will suffice, as conspiracy implies intelligence."
Moynihan's law - "The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country." Coined by Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003).
Goodhart's law - When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Duverger's law - After Maurice Duverger. Winner-take-all (or first-past-the-post) electoral systems tend to create a 2 party system, while proportional representation tends to create a multiple party system.
Hotelling's law in economics - Under some conditions, it is rational for competitors to make their products as nearly identical as possible.
Hutber's law - "Improvement means deterioration". Coined by financial journalist Patrick Hutber.
Finagle's law - Generalized version of Murphy's law, fully named Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives and usually rendered "anything that can go wrong, will or "If something can go wrong, it will go wrong, and at the worst possible moment." Not strictly eponymous, since there was no Finagle.
Herblock's law states that "If it's good, they'll stop making it." Possibly coined by Herbert Lawrence Block, whose pen name was Herblock.
Sturgeon's revelation - "90 percent of everything is crap."
Gresham's law - "bad money drives good money out of circulation". Coined in 1858 by British economist Henry Dunning Macleod, and named for Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-1579). The principle had been stated before Gresham by others, including Nicolaus Copernicus.
Gall's law - "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."
Godwin's law - An adage in Internet culture that states "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." Coined by Mike Godwin in 1990.
Littlewood's law - States that individuals can expect miracles to happen to them, at the rate of about one per month. Coined by Professor J E Littlewood, (1885-1977)
Okrent's Law - The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true. Stated by Daniel Okrent, first Public Editor for The New York Times
Sturgeon's law - "Nothing is always absolutely so." Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985)
Thomas theorem - "If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.", a social law as far as there are any. (after W.I. Thomas and D.S. Thomas)
Sayre's law - "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue." By way of corollary, the law adds: "That is why academic politics are so bitter."
Stigler's law - No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer, named by statistician Stephen Stigler who attributes it to sociologist Robert K. Merton, making the law self-referential.
Weiner's Law of Libraries There are no answers, only cross-references.
Rothbard's law - everyone specializes in his own area of weakness.
Wiltshire's Law of Explanation "To define is to limit"
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