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Law	Summary	Common Relevance
Parkinson's Law	Work expands to fill the available time.	Scheduling
Betteridge's law of headlines	Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.	headlines
1. Murphy's Law	Anything that can go wrong eventually will.	Reliability, operations
2. Brooks's Law	Adding people to a late software project makes it later.	Project management
3. Conway's Law	Systems mirror the communication structure of their organizations.	Architecture
5. Hofstadter's Law	Everything takes longer than expected, even accounting for the law.	Estimation
6. Postel's Law	Be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you accept.	Internet protocols
7. Linus's Law	Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.	Open source
8. Metcalfe's Law	A network's value grows roughly with the square of its users.	Social networks
9. Moore's Law	Computing power tends to grow exponentially over time.	Hardware
10. Wirth's Law	Software becomes slower faster than hardware becomes faster.	Performance
11. Amdahl's Law	Parallel speedup is limited by the serial portion.	Concurrency
12. Little's Law	Average items in a system equal arrival rate × average time.	Distributed systems
13. Gall's Law	Complex systems that work evolve from simple systems that work.	Architecture
14. Tesler's Law	Complexity cannot be eliminated, only shifted.	UX, APIs
15. Goodhart's Law	When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.	KPIs, ML
16. Occam's Razor	Prefer the simplest adequate explanation.	Debugging
17. Hanlon's Razor	Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.	Incident analysis
18. Pareto Principle	Roughly 80% of effects come from 20% of causes.	Optimization
19. Knuth's Optimization Principle	Premature optimization is the root of much evil.	Performance engineering
20. Lehman's Laws	Successful software continually evolves and grows more complex.	Maintenance
21. Zawinski's Law	Every program attempts to expand until it can read email.	Feature creep
22. Hyrum's Law	Every observable behavior of an API will eventually have users depending on it.	API design
23. Cunningham's Law	The best way to get the right answer online is to post the wrong one.	Online communities
24. Godwin's Law	As online discussion grows longer, comparisons to Nazis become inevitable.	Forums
25. Brandolini's Law	Refuting misinformation requires far more effort than producing it.	Social media
26. Beck's Law	Simplicity is often the most scalable solution.	Software design
27. Ninety–Ninety Rule	The last 10% of a project takes another 90% of the time.	Project estimation
28. Sturgeon's Law	Ninety percent of everything is crud.	Software quality
29. Bell's Law	New computer classes emerge as technology advances.	Computing history
30. Shirky Principle	Institutions try to preserve the problem they solve.	Platform governance