A list of 114 words by sionnach.
- anthony's law of the workshop appears on just this list
- bevan's law of judgement appears on just this list
- conway's law appears on just this list
- oliver's law appears on just this list
- vanin's law appears on just this list
- tussman's law appears on just this list
- acheson's rule of bureaucracy appears on just this list
- acton's law appears on 1 other list
- paul's law appears on just this list
- boob's law appears on just this list
- preudhomme's law of window cleaning appears on just this list
- barth's distinction appears on just this list
- baruch's observation appears on just this list
- boren's laws appears on just this list
- drew's law of highway biology appears on just this list
- ducharme's precept appears on just this list
- beckhap's law appears on just this list
- cheop's law appears on just this list
- first law of socio-genetics appears on just this list
- bucy's law appears on just this list
- flugg's law appears on just this list
- arnold's laws of documentation appears on just this list
- brooks's law appears on 1 other list
- law of probable dispersal appears on just this list
- law of selective gravity appears on just this list
- jenning's corollary to the law of selective gravity appears on 1 other list
- lubarsky's law of cybernetic entomology appears on just this list
- albrecht's law appears on just this list
- allen's axiom appears on just this list
- clarke's third law appears on 1 other list
- cropp's law appears on just this list
- denniston's law appears on just this list
- dilbert principle appears on just this list
- finster's law appears on just this list
- ginsberg's theorem appears on just this list
- gold's law appears on just this list
- hanlon's razor appears on 3 other lists
- heller's law appears on just this list
- jenkinson's law appears on just this list
- johnson-laird's law appears on just this list
- larkinson's law appears on just this list
- lieberman's law appears on just this list
- luce's law appears on just this list
- lynch's law appears on just this list
- hofstadter's law appears on just this list
- murphy's law appears on 6 other lists
- o' toole's commentary on murphy's law appears on just this list
- o' reilly's law of the kitchen appears on just this list
- parkinson's law appears on 3 other lists
- the peter principle appears on just this list
- pudder's law appears on just this list
- moore's law appears on 2 other lists
- cole's law appears on 1 other list
- rudin's law appears on just this list
- sattinger's law appears on just this list
- stewart's law of retroaction appears on just this list
- mona's law appears on 1 other list
- godwin's law appears on 9 other lists
- feldstein's advice appears on just this list
- abbott's first admonition appears on just this list
- abbott's second admonition appears on just this list
- slick's laws appears on just this list
- blore's razor appears on 1 other list
- kinkler's laws appears on just this list
- wirth's law appears on just this list
- launegayer's maxim appears on just this list
- algren's precepts appears on just this list
- barach's rule appears on just this list
- gentry's conclusion appears on just this list
- epstein's axiom appears on just this list
- bombeck's rule of medicine appears on just this list
- pardo's first postulate appears on just this list
- sodd's second law appears on just this list
- parker's law appears on just this list
- morton's law appears on just this list
- glyme's formula for success appears on just this list
- lackland's laws appears on just this list
- mathis' rule appears on just this list
- etorre's observation appears on just this list
- rocky's rule of innovation prevention appears on just this list
- miksch's law appears on just this list
- amdahl's law appears on just this list
- mahaffrey's observation appears on just this list
- farber's fourth rule appears on just this list
- jones's law appears on just this list
- van roy's law appears on just this list
- herblock's law appears on just this list
- hebb's law appears on just this list
- hubble's law appears on just this list
- hutber's law appears on just this list
- muphry's law appears on just this list
- moynihan's law appears on just this list
- gumperson's law appears on just this list
- gummidge's law appears on just this list
- hubbard's law appears on just this list
- mason's first law of synergism appears on just this list
- meskimen's law appears on just this list
- reilly's law of retail gravitation appears on just this list
- roemer's law appears on just this list
- sutton's law appears on 1 other list
- amara's law appears on just this list
- maverick's electronics principle appears on just this list
- davian's observation appears on just this list
- gerrold's law of infernal dynamics appears on just this list
- brady's law of problem solving appears on just this list
- stigler's law appears on just this list
- verner's law appears on 1 other list
- grimm's law appears on 2 other lists
- fermi's paradox appears on 1 other list
- laver's law appears on just this list
- zymurgy's law of evolving system dynamics appears on just this list
- newton's (little-known) seventh law appears on just this list
- adams's rules appears on just this list
- dolbear's law appears on 2 other lists

marky cool list! Jun 28, 2011
mollusque Regarding zymurgy's law of evolving system dynamics and cans of worms: wouldn't a blender solve the problem? Sep 2, 2010
marky shhwweeet list. faved. Feb 7, 2010
ruzuzu I love this list, and I think it would be great if the computer programming laws were included. Feb 4, 2010
hernesheir anthropic principle
weak anthropic principle
The conditions necessary for the development of intelligent life will be met only in certain regions that are limited in space and time. That is, the region of the Universe in which we live is not necessarily representative of a purely random set of initial conditions; only those favorable to intelligent life would actually develop creatures who wonder what the initial conditions of the Universe were, and this process can only happen at certain times through the evolution of any given universe.
strong anthropic principle
A more forceful argument than the weak principle: It implies that if the laws of the Universe were not conducive to the development of intelligent creatures to ask about the initial conditions of the Universe, intelligent life would never have evolved to ask the question in the first place. In other words, the laws of the Universe are the way they are because if they weren't, no intelligent beings would be able to consider the laws of the Universe at all.
Feb 4, 2010
hernesheir Awesome list. So much more interesting than "In-laws of the Universe"! Feb 4, 2010
yarb Good list, excellent description. I think it's time for a moratorium on these laws (but not your recording of them). Jun 30, 2009
shevek Perhaps you might include the law of quantum aging? Aug 17, 2008
yarb And Godwin's Law: "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." Aug 1, 2008
rolig Don't forget Mona's Law (from Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City): "You can have a hot lover, a hot job and a hot apartment, but you can't have all three at the same time". Aug 1, 2008
bilby How about sionnach's law of buttered cats? Jul 5, 2008