Comments on: I am the Law

By: The Barefoot Bum

The Barefoot Bum — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:24:22 +0000

I’ve put Clark’s spin on Hanlon’s Razor (perhaps one could call it Heller’s Law) as my motto: “Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.”

By: TW

TW — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:14:16 +0000

You need to get all these laws added to Wikipedia so when someone else, in the future, tries to claim ownership you can trounce them.

By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:47:28 +0000

Karen

Some great Laws. We should submit some to wikipedia….

I have another Powerpoint one:

The likelihood that a speaker will read out every word on a Powerpoint presentation increases in direct relationship to the dullness of the content.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:54:17 +0000

Karen’s law of software: that which has not been tested by definition does not work. I spent several years trying to pound this through the heads of clueless software managers, who refused to allocate enough test time.

I’m on thinner ice with this one, but I’ll offer it as a hypothesis: the success of a marriage is loosely correlated with the inverse of the number of wedding guests. (Happily married 28 years this June; 18 wedding attendees, including the priest, the harpsichordist, and the neighbor’s cat who wandered into the church during the ceremony.)

The law of powerpoint presentations: The number of your slides that really are clearly readable when projected at 72-dpi goes in inverse proportion to the importance of the presentation.

By: TW

TW — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:44:13 +0000

Now that really is a law…

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:16:08 +0000

Skitt’s Law – a corollary of Murphy’s Law, variously expressed as “any post correcting an error in another post will contain at least one error itself” or “the likelihood of an error in a post is directly proportional to the embarrassment it will cause the poster.”