Amara's Law
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
Benford's Law of Controversy
Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
Clark's Law
Sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice.
Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives (corollary to Murphy's Law)
Anything that can go wrong, will--at the worst possible moment.
Godwin's Law
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.
Hofstadter's Law
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hutber's Law
Improvement means deterioration.
Martin's Law
The higher up the management ladder you go, the more disconnected from reality you are.
Meyer's Law
It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple. For instance, observe this explanation I am adding. It's meaningless, purposeless, and while being about twice as long as the adage itself, it leads back to it.
Murphy's Law
Anything that can go wrong, will.
Parkinson's Law
Work expands so as to fill the time for its completion.
Segal's Law
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
Got any others?
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