Godwin's law. "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1"
Usenet newsgroup. הפורום שאליו כיוון במקור גודווין.
התכנסות כמעט בוודאות למה הכוונה ב"הסיכוי שואף לאחד".
חוקי זה לא מוסרי. דוגמה אחת מני רבות.
Obama’s 2006 Speech on Faith and Politics. "Our law is by definition a codification of morality" אמר הנשיא לשעבר ברק אובמה.
Mansplaining מאנגלית, כי החלופה העברית כרגיל מעפנה ברמות.
Poe's Law "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article"
Godwin of Godwin's Law: 'By All Means, Compare These Shitheads to the Nazis'.
Chekhov's gun. "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
Murphy's law. "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong"
Muphry's law. "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written."
Helen Lewis. "the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism"
The Mythical Man-Month. שכתב פרד ברוקס אומר, בין השאר ש"adding manpower to a late software project makes it later".
The Peter Principle. "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence".
Eponym. בא מיוונית "על פי שם"
Hanlon's Razor. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". מקור השם בOccam's razor: "when presented with competing hypotheses that make the same predictions, one should select the solution with the fewest assumptions".
Clay Shirky. "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution". למשל, פוליטיקאי ישמר את המצב שהביא לבחירתו.
Domain Name System. או DNS בקיצור.
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