Interesting Laws

Job Laws

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

• Goodhart's Law

"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it."

• Brandolini's law

"In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake. That is why academic politics are so bitter."

• Sayre's Law

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

• Betteridge's law of headlines