Offtopic question: where can I get a hierarchical category/index/guideline to many of these * laws ?
I'd like to quotes these cool stuff as well, just need a way to look it up :)
This is pretty close to what you're looking for, I think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Adages
Special case in programming -- "colour of the bikeshed" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality