Eponymous Computer Laws - Required Knowledge for Every Computer
Professional
Over the years I have really enjoyed some of
these, so I share them with you:
On Discussion:
+ Benford's Law - Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
+ Duffy's Law - Most people are wrong about most things most of the time.
+ Godwin's Law - As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. (A side note, this has been expanded to include the tradition that the first one to make such a comparison is deemed the looser in whatever debate was in progress. Quirk's Exception has also been accepted which states that Nazis or Hitler cannot simply be tossed in to immediately end the debate.)
+ Moynihan's Law - The amount off violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violates heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
On Projects:
+ Amara's Law - We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run
+ Brook's Law - Adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
+ Edward's Law - You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem.
+ Finagle's Law - Anything that can go wrong, will.
+ Goodhart's Law - When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
+ Hanlon's Razor - Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
+ Hlade's Law - If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person; they will find an easier way to do it.
+ Hofstadter's Law - It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
+ Blankenship's Law - Managers will always apply the inverse of Hofstadter's Law, in determining how much time to deduct from your estimation on how long a project takes to complete. Meaning the longer you tell your manager it will take, the more time he will deduct from that timetable in order to publish the new deadline.
+ Parkinson's Law - Work expands so as to fill the time available for it's completion.
+ Peter Principle - In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
+ Rothbar'ds Law - Everyone specializes in his own area of weakness.
+ Wirth's Law - Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
+ 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.
On Discussion:
+ Benford's Law - Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
+ Duffy's Law - Most people are wrong about most things most of the time.
+ Godwin's Law - As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. (A side note, this has been expanded to include the tradition that the first one to make such a comparison is deemed the looser in whatever debate was in progress. Quirk's Exception has also been accepted which states that Nazis or Hitler cannot simply be tossed in to immediately end the debate.)
+ Moynihan's Law - The amount off violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violates heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
On Projects:
+ Amara's Law - We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run
+ Brook's Law - Adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
+ Edward's Law - You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem.
+ Finagle's Law - Anything that can go wrong, will.
+ Goodhart's Law - When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
+ Hanlon's Razor - Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
+ Hlade's Law - If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person; they will find an easier way to do it.
+ Hofstadter's Law - It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
+ Blankenship's Law - Managers will always apply the inverse of Hofstadter's Law, in determining how much time to deduct from your estimation on how long a project takes to complete. Meaning the longer you tell your manager it will take, the more time he will deduct from that timetable in order to publish the new deadline.
+ Parkinson's Law - Work expands so as to fill the time available for it's completion.
+ Peter Principle - In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
+ Rothbar'ds Law - Everyone specializes in his own area of weakness.
+ Wirth's Law - Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
+ 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.
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