Hacker Laws

Laws
90–9–1 Principle (1% Rule)
90–90 Rule
Amdahl’s Law
The Broken Windows Theory
Brooks’ Law
CAP Theorem (Brewer’s Theorem)
Clarke’s three laws
Conway’s Law
Cunningham’s Law
Dunbar’s Number
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Fitts’ Law
Gall’s Law
Goodhart’s Law
Hanlon’s Razor
Hick’s Law (Hick-Hyman Law)
Hofstadter’s Law
Hutber’s Law
The Hype Cycle & Amara’s Law
Hyrum’s Law (The Law of Implicit Interfaces)
Input-Process-Output (IPO)
Kernighan’s Law
Koomey’s Law
Linus’s Law
Metcalfe’s Law
Moore’s Law
Murphy’s Law / Sod’s Law
Occam’s Razor
Parkinson’s Law
Premature Optimization Effect
Putt’s Law
Reed’s Law
The Bitter Lesson
The Ringelmann Effect
The Law of Conservation of Complexity (Tesler’s Law)
The Law of Demeter
The Law of Leaky Abstractions
The Law of the Instrument
The Law of Triviality
The Unix Philosophy
The Scout Rule
The Spotify Model
The Two Pizza Rule
Twyman’s law
Wadler’s Law
Wheaton’s Law
Principles
All Models Are Wrong (George Box’s Law)
Chesterton’s Fence
Kerckhoffs’s principle
The Dead Sea Effect
The Dilbert Principle
The Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule)
The Shirky Principle
The Peter Principle
The Robustness Principle (Postel’s Law)
SOLID
The Single Responsibility Principle
The Open/Closed Principle
The Liskov Substitution Principle
The Interface Segregation Principle
The Dependency Inversion Principle
The DRY Principle
The KISS principle
YAGNI
The Fallacies of Distributed Computing
The Principle of Least Astonishment
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