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* [Premature Optimization Effect](#premature-optimization-effect)
* [Putt's Law](#putts-law)
* [Reed's Law](#reeds-law)
* [The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity](#the-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity)
* [The Law of Conservation of Complexity (Tesler's Law)](#the-law-of-conservation-of-complexity-teslers-law)
* [The Law of Demeter](#the-law-of-demeter)
* [The Law of Leaky Abstractions](#the-law-of-leaky-abstractions)
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- [Metcalfe's Law](#metcalfes-law)
- [Dunbar's Number](#dunbars-number)

### The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

[The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla#%22The_Basic_Laws_of_Human_Stupidity%22_(1976))

These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

> Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
> The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
> A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
> Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
> A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

Corollary: a stupid person is more dangerous than a pillager.

### The Law of Conservation of Complexity (Tesler's Law)

[The Law of Conservation of Complexity on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_conservation_of_complexity)
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