Laws

Barzini's Law: Nations, organizations, institutions, bodies, or single human beings are never as powerful, intelligent, far-seeing, efficient, and dangerous as they seem to their enemies.

Clarke's Three Laws:

(1.) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

(2.) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

(3.) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Hansen's Law: What the son wishes to forget the grandson wishes to remember.

Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

Occam's Razor: The law of parsimony, economy, or succinctness; a principle urging one to select from among competing hypotheses that which makes the fewest assumptions.

Poe's Law: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.

Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.