Top 10 Laws of Life

10. Dilbert Principle

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

The Takeaway: If you suck are your job, you're probably going to get fired ... unless there's a spot open in management.

9. Wirth's Law

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Sam's law: Hardware gets faster faster than your wallet gets bigger.

8. Skitt's Law

The Likelihood of an error in a post is directly proportional to the embarrassment it will cause the poster.

The takeaway: If you're posting a comment in a forum or on a blog in which you attempt to correct someone else's spelling or grammar, be sure to triple check for errors.

7. Occam's Razor

When two explanations are offered for a phenomenon, the simplest full explanation is preferable. Never multiply causes without necessity.

The Takeaway: How does electricity work? Magic.

6. Stugeon's Law

Sturgeon's Revelation: 90% of everything is crap.

The Takeaway: Just because you read book one of the Goosebumps series and hated it doesn't mean reading is a waste of time, you just need to find the 10% of books that are actually good.

5. Murphy's Law

Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

Finagle's law - "... and at the worst possible moment."

The Takeaway: Don't row boats below flying piano factories.

4. Clarke's 3 Laws

First law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Second law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Third law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Okay, I know three laws in one is cheating, but it's Arthur C. Clarke we're talking about - he gets to have three for one. A closely related adage is Shermer's law which states; "Any sufficiently advanced alien intelligence is indistinguishable from god." But since god created the planet and was therefore not born on it, I'd say god is an alien.

3. Hanlon's Razor

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

2. Dollo's Law

"An organism is unable to return, even partially, to a previous stage already realized in the ranks of its ancestors." Simply put this law states that evolution is not reversible.

The Takeaway: Sorry guys, it was a thought provoking movie but it's not our future.

1. Godwin's Law

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

The Takeaway: Nazi's are bound to show up at some point.