====== My Favorite Quotes ====== * **//"Invention requires two things: 1. The ability to try a lot of experiments, and 2. not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments."//** - Andy Jassy CEO AWS * **Parkinson's Law** - Work expands to fill the time you give it. Shrink the deadline, shrink the task. * **Hofstadter's Law** - Everything takes longer than you expect, even when you account for Hofstadter's Law. * **Hanlon's Razor** - Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by carelessness or stupidity. * **The Pareto Principle (80/20)** - Roughly 80% of the results comes from 20% of the effort. * **The Peter Principle** - People get promoted until they reached a job they are bad at and then stay there. * **Hick's Law** - More options means slower decisions. Cut the menu, decide faster. * **Goodhart's Law** - When a measure becomes a target, it's stop being a good measure. * **The Dunning-Kruger Effect** - The less you know, the more you overestimate how much you know * **Occam's Razor** - The simplest explanation is usually the right one. * **Chesterton's Fence** - Don't tear something down until you understand why it was built in the first place. * **Brook's Law** - If you add more people to a project that's already late, it's going to be even more late. Because we underestimate coordination costs.