Named laws of technology


The always-great tech-blog Global Nerdy has a great roundup of "named laws" of technology -- laws like "Linus's Law" ("with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"), "Occam's Law" (the simplest explanation is most likely to be true), named for some thinker or technologist, useful in any geek's daily round. Link

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