There are laws and then there are geeky laws. Read more about four geeky laws rule the world of technology and social media:
Amara’s Law: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run” […]
Brooks’ Law: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later” […]
Thackara’s Laws: “If you put smart technology into a pointless product, the result will be a stupid product” […]
Reed’s Law: “The Value of a Network Increases Dramatically When People Form Subgroups for Collaborations and Sharing” […]
In a similar vein, here are some more geeky laws for your consideration:
- Parkinson’s law: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
- Moore’s law: “The observation that over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuitsdoubles approximately every two years.”
- Murphy’s law: “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.”
- Godwin’s law: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”
- Conway’s law: “Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it.”
- Dilbert principle: “The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.”
- Hofstadter’s law: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
- Linus’ law: “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”
- Peter principle: “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
- Sturgeon’s law: “Ninety percent of everything is crud.”
- Wirth’s law: “Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.”
Many more here: List of eponymous laws (Wikipedia).