Named Principles
| Name | Desc |
|---|---|
| Betteridge’s Law of Headlines | Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no' |
| Brandolini’s Law | The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it |
| Brooks’s law | Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later |
| Dunning–Kruger Effect | A cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals overestimate their own competence |
| Eagleson's Law | Any code you wrote more than six months ago might as well have been written by someone else |
| Gish gallop | Overwhelming someone with as many arguments as possible, without regard for the accuracy or strength of the arguments |
| Godwin's Law | As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one |
| Law of Least Possible Simulation | There can be no model of the universe smaller than the universe itself |
| Matilda Effect | When women do the work and men get the credit |
| Occum's Razor | The simplest answer is usually true |
| Osborne Effect | When premature discussion of future products damages sales of current ones |
| Pareto Principle | 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes |
| Peter Principle | Every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence |
| Poe's Law | Any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken for a sincere expression of those views |
| Postel's Law | Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept |
| Shirky Principle | Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution |
| Streisand Effect | Any attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information brings it into the spotlight |
| Sturgeon's Law | 90% of everything is crud |
Sources:
- Eponymous Laws and Principles by Tom Connor
- Wikipedia