Difference between revisions of "Words of Wisdom"
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* ''Past success is your worst enemy.'' | * ''Past success is your worst enemy.'' | ||
| + | * ''I am all for progress - it is change I don't like'' - Mark Twain | ||
== Laws == | == Laws == | ||
| − | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law Godwin's Law] | + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law Godwin's Law]: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. |
| − | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle Peter Principle] | + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle Peter Principle]: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. |
| − | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law Parkinson's Law] | + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle Dilbert principle]: Leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow. |
| + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law Parkinson's Law]: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. | ||
| + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law Conway's Law]: Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it. | ||
| + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number Dunbar's Number]: A theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. | ||
| + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect Dunning-Kruger Effect]: Is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes. | ||
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| + | Source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws List of eponymous laws] | ||
Revision as of 08:05, 22 September 2012
- Gandhi: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Studying history is the shortest path to wisdom.
- A government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
- Past success is your worst enemy.
- I am all for progress - it is change I don't like - Mark Twain
Laws
- Godwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
- Peter Principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
- Dilbert principle: Leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow.
- Parkinson's Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
- Conway's Law: Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it.
- Dunbar's Number: A theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.
- Dunning-Kruger Effect: Is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.
Source: List of eponymous laws
