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Murphy's law
an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong".
Moore's law
observation on the growth of integrated circuit capacity
Godwin's law
Godwin's Law is known to be the oldest meme on the Internet, made by Mike Godwin. The memes meaning is to say: The longer an online conversation continues, The more of a chance there is to mention Hitler.
Hanlon's razor
philosophical adage stating "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Zipf's law
probability distribution
The Peter Principle
book and concept by Laurence J. Peter that states that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence"
Benford's law
observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life sets of numerical data
Hitchens' razor
Epistemological razor regarding the burden of proof
Brandolini's law
difficulty of refuting false or misleading information
Betteridge's law of headlines
journalism-related adage
Stigler's law of eponymy
law stating that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer
Tobler's first law of geography
the principle that, even though everything relates to everything else, nearby things are more related than distant things
Planck's principle
principle that scientific change is generational
Heaps' law
heuristic for distinct words in a document
Simon effect
concept regarding reaction time to stimulus
quantum computing scaling laws
observations predicting exponential progress in quantum computing, including qubit count, computational power, and decoherence time
Mersenne's laws
laws describing the frequency of oscillation of a stretched string
Sutton's law
"first consider the obvious"