- Sturgeon's 1st law: Nothing is always absolutely so
- Sturgeon's 2nd law: 90% of everything is crud(*)
- Murphy's law: Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong
- Finagle law (Murphy's corollary) : Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment. Thermodynamic variant : The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.
- Occam's razor: entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity (the simplest explanation is usually the right one)
- Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
- Barnum's Law: You'll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
- Benford's law of controversy: Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
- Peter Principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
- Clarke's 3rd law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
(*) Aussi trouvée citée avec "crap" à la place de "crud". On va dire - pour faire simple - "de la merde". La phrase d'origine était la réponse de Theodore Sturgeon à la question : "Pourquoi 90% de la science-fiction publiée est-elle de la merde ?"
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