Part 1: Laws of the Internet and Part 2: Laws of Programming

Ringwald’s Law of Household Geometry – “Any horizontal surface is soon piled up on.”

Stigler’s Law of Eponymy – “No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.”

Matthew Effect – “Eminent scientists will often get more credit than a comparatively unknown researcher, even if their work is similar; it also means that credit will usually be given to researchers who are already famous”

Peter Principle – “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” (related to the Dilbert Principle…)

Dilbert Principle – “Companies are hesitant to fire people but also want to not let them hurt their business, so companies promote incompetent workers into the place where they can do the least harm: management.” (related to Putt’s Law…)

Putt’s Law – “Technology is dominated by two types of people, those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.”

Shirky Principle – “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution”

Hanlon’s Razor – “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ”

Hofstadter’s Law – “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

Betteridge Rule – “98% of leading or speculative questions in thread titles can be correctly answered “No.”

Sturgeon’s Law – “Ninety percent of everything is crap.”

Parkinson’s Law – “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”

Campbell’s Law – “The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.”

The Law of Image Overcompensation – “The amount of effort a person, group, or organization puts into projecting any image for themselves is inversely proportional to how accurate that image is. This is especially true of politicians and advertising campaigns. For example, it’s always the biggest homophobes who turn out to be Armoured Closet Gay. Likewise, the “pro-family” politicians are always the ones who have been cheating on their spouses, and “this is not your grandfather’s car” means it most definitely is your grandfather’s car.”

Clarke’s Three Laws

1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states tha...

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