I find it mildly annoying when people state such nuggets of knowledge as “laws”. Sure, it’s generally true that you can’t go for the most sophisticated and powerful system at the first go, but sometimes the minimal working system is complex no? Anyway, it’s certainly not a “law” of the universe.
Klysm's Law:
Nuggets of knowledge are not laws. Referring to them as such annoys Klysm.
An aphorism being called a law is called a klysmism.
"Law" can also be used for pithy statements that don't have to be particularly rigorous. C.f. Murphy's Law.
This statement generalizes quite well all around the world to the other kind of law, that's voted in parliament/congress... haha! ;-)
More seriously, I think the word OP is looking for is theory. Nuggets aren't theory, they're really empirical by essence — observations.
Re:Simple Systems Have Less Downtime
by stygiansonic on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:44PM
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It’s a colloquialism, like Moore’s law.
> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.[9]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law