16/Sep 2013
By Ivan du Toit
Conway’s law
In any organization, there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person should be fired.
Hanlon’s razor
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Green’s law of debate
Anything is possible if you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Stewart’s law of retroaction
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
Kauffman’s Paradox of the Corporation
The less important you are to the corporation, the more your tardiness or absence is noticed.
Goodhart’s law
As soon as the government attempts to regulate any particular set of financial assets, these become unreliable as indicators of economic trends.
