Dave's Laws

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Last Updated: 29 Jul 2007

Author: Dave Williams; dlwilliams=aristotle=net


My own personal realizations of life...

1) Cheap is a quality overcoming many faults.

2) Tools are good karma.

3) Uptime is like air; nobody notices until it goes away.

4) Perfect is the enemy of good enough.

5) Correlation does not imply causation.

6) Anyone can come up with a complex solution; a simple one is a little harder.

7) Law of Similarity: Everything is like something else.

8) If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter where you are.

9) Explosives are power tools.

10) Failure to define the limits of an answer is just as bad as an incorrect answer.

11) Pressurized fluids want to be free.


Over the years I've come across similar observations from other people, some from years before I came up them.