I was reading up on Moore's Law and started to think about all the weird Murphy's Law variants that my friends and I used in college. So, I started to dig. Wikipedia has a pretty good list going and I can only laugh when I read them.
Here are some of the better ones:
- Murphy's Law - "If anything can go wrong, it will." - So true. I first heard about this law in college programming but by the end of college, it make so much sense (on many different levels)
- Occam's Razor - "Given two equally predictive theories, choose the simpler." - Perfect example of not following this? Steve Gibson and the WMF exploit. Need I say more...
- Hanlon's Razor - "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. " - It is commonly said that people are the weakest security link, but why? Well this Jinx.com t-shirt says it all.
- Parkinson's Law - "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. " - Anyone that has ever worked in the corporate world, knows this is true. =)
- Godwin's Law - "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." - Anyone that has watched a security mailing list has seen this happen right in front of their eyes.
- Amara's Law - "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. " - Happens all the time.
I am sure there are more floating around the internet today. Anyone have any to add??
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