One of our recent emails about Universal Truths received some appreciated comments, so we’re including a few more. I’d like to start with one of my own.
Gomer’s Law: “When beginning a new business or project, have no committee and keep your overhead low and your ego lower.”
Akin’s 1st Law: “Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.”
Akin’s 37th Law (a.k.a. Henshaw’s Law): “One key to success in a mission is establishing clear lines of blame.”
Akin’s 41st Law: “There’s never enough time to do it right, but somehow, there’s always enough time to do it over.”
Akin’s 43rd Law: “You really understand something the third time you see it (or the first time you teach it).”
Jakob’s Law of the Internet Use Experience: “Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.”
Streisand Effect: “The phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet.”
“Thanks for Nothing” Effect: “If the original post in a thread ends with the sentence ‘Thanks in advance!’ it is exponentially less likely that it will be replied to.”
Weinberg’s Law: “If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.”
Conquest’s First Law: “Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.”
Dilbert Principle: “Companies are hesitant to fire people but want to not let them hurt their business, so companies promote incompetent workers into the place where they can do the least harm: management.”
Sinclair’s Law: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
Sturgeon’s Law: “Ninety percent of everything is crap.”
”Two Pizza Rule: “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.”
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