Weinberg's Law A Quote by Gerald Weinberg quoteinvestigator.com If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. programmingmakingarchitecturequality
You cannot consume what is not produced The only law of economics that I believe in is Hamming’s law: “You cannot consume what is not produced.” There is not another single reliable law in all of economics I know of which is not either a tautology in mathematics or else sometimes false. Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn Scientific writing economics