vocabulary.md

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• Stress + rest = growth
• Schadenfreude
• Zugzwang
• Shibboleth
• Dunning-Kruger Effect
• L'esprit de l'escalier: ("staircase wit") is a French term used in English for the predicament of thinking of the perfect reply too late.
• Baader-Meinhof: The illusion in which a word, a name, or other thing that has recently come to one's attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards (not to be confused with the recency illusion or selection bias).
• Goodhart's law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
• McNamara Fallacy: making a decision based solely on quantitative observations (or metrics) and ignoring all others
• Festina lente: Make haste slowly.
• LeBlanc's Law: Later equals never.
• Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
• Gall's Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
• Betteridge's law of headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
• Slow is smooth, smooth is fast
• Braess's paradox is a proposed explanation for the situation where an alteration to a road network to improve traffic flow actually has the reverse effect and impedes traffic through it.
• Gezelligheid: It can also indicate belonging, time spent with loved ones, catching up with an old friend or just the general togetherness that gives people a warm feeling.
• Ousterhout's dichotomy: high-level programming languages tend to fall into two groups, each with distinct properties and uses: system programming languages and scripting languages.
• Change function: P(success) = f(level of current crisis) / f(perceived pain of adoption)
• Foucault’s boomerang: the technologies of dominion abroad boomerang back to the colonizer
• Normalization of deviance
• Ironies of automation
• Conway’s Law: Organizations which design systems... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
• Kerckhoffs's principle: A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge.
• George Box: "All models are wrong, but some are useful."
• "If you don’t schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you."
• "If you can understand a city, that city is dead."
• Martin Luthor King, Jr.: "Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary."
• Apophenia: the tendency to perceive meaningful patterns within random data
• ADBOC: Agree Denotationally, But Object Connotatively
• Hyrum's Law: With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.