Named after a person or character.
Well there's the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. In a nutshell - 'Things behave differently when watched'.
Yep! Rothbard's Law which says that everyone specializes in his or her own area of weakness :)
Shroedinger's Cat? Well. It IS a law of Physics.
Or a darned fine argument supporting that it is a law. It counts, trust me.
If you're interested in "laws" specific to the bend of Ed Murphy look for a book titled Malice in Blunderland by Thomas L. Martin.
Stigler's law of eponymy is a process proposed by University of Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler in his 1980 publication "Stigler’s law of eponymy".[1] It states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. Examples include Hubble's law which was derived by Georges Lemaître two years before Edwin Hubble, the Pythagorean theorem although it was known to Babylonian mathematicians before Pythagoras, and Halley's comet which was observed by astronomers since at least 240 BC. Stigler himself named the sociologist Robert K. Merton as the discoverer of "Stigler's law" to show that it follows its own decree.
I don't know the name of it, but the law which states 'People who borrow money soon lose the desire to pay it back'
One formerly oft-mentioned drain on resources was Parkinson's Law.
This law posits that for every job, there has to be someone to do it, someone to help him, and someone to supervise him.
It seems to me that in many cases the pendulum has swung the other way. Now the quality of product, even maintaining the good name of the company, has been pushed aside by the ever-increasing-profit imperative. So that even in cases of assured continuous flow of work, in some hospitals, or care homes for the elderly and infirm, for instance, the foot-soldier staff of 138 has been whittled down to 51. So that now, typically without consultation, individuals are obliged to work excessively long hours in what is often an onerous, even dangerous, psychologically wearing job, but where wages plus overtime bonuses bring the wage bill close to what it was before the cuts, and nurses work beyond their efficient capability so that mistakes, oversights, irritability due to mental fatigue, and a work ethic gradually eroded by enforced cost-cutting, and there may even arise a festering resentment at being 'put upon', all serve to reduce efficiency below the required level for a people-in-need caring environment.
The modern principle of words not deeds, interspersed with threats or implied threats, is always there to facilitate the intent of course.
I've seen that "law" before but it's not attributed to Parkinson anywhere that I can find. Parkinson is the person that gave us the "work expands to fill the time available" axiom. Here's a list of the laws that I found attributed to Parkinson, all still germane to your point:
Parkinson’s First Law
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion;
the thing to be done swells in perceived importance and
complexity in a direct ratio with the time to be spent in
its completion.
Parkinson’s Second Law
Expenditures rise to meet income.
Parkinson’s Third Law
If there is a way to delay an important decision the good
bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.
Parkinson’s Fourth Law
The number of people in any working group tends to increase
regardless of the amount of work to be done.
Parkinson’s Law of Delay
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
for every job, there has to be someone to do it, someone to help him, and someone to supervise him
Believe it or not I first heard about this "law" on The Simpsons.
Yes; "Law of Jante", a.k.a. "Janteloven" a.k.a., "Jante".
It was/is in the Nordic countries (it's debatable if they still go by it) a code of conduct that they used to/ still do follow.
It is 10 rules. To condense them, it is: don't think you're better than anyone else, don't think you're smarter than anyone else, don't be a know-it-all, don't think you are more important than anyone else.
A couple of rather amusing ones out of the 260 or so eponymous laws:
1- Cunningham's law: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer. Attributed to Ward Cunningham by Steven McGeady.
“ Anything that can go wrong will go wrong while Murphy is out of town.
