Saturday, July 27, 2019

THE LAW OF SILENCE

Silence is golden.  Unless you have young children; then, silence is suspicious. 

Friday, July 26, 2019

LYLE LOVETT'S LAW

"Never eat Mexican food east of the Mississippi or north of Dallas."- Lyle Lovett

Saturday, July 13, 2019

Corbató's Law

Computer pioneer Fernando Corbató passed away on July 12.  Known as the inventor of the computer password, he also came up with what has long been referred as Corbató's Law:

"The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same, independent of the language used."

Saturday, July 6, 2019

GOLDENBERG'S LAW

"Crowds are always big — but they’re not always wise. Sometimes it’s impossible to control which crowds are being sourced."
(David Goldenberg, http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-story-behind-the-worst-movie-on-imdb/)