Here are some of my favorite answers from smart people:
David Bunnell
Bunnell's First Law of RetrievabilityKarl Sabbagh
Everything is retrievable.
Bunnell's Second Law of Retrievability
Everything is stored somewhere. The secret to retrieving things is simply finding out where they are stored.
Sabbagh's First LawIrene Pepperberg
Never assume.
All the mistakes I have made in my life—not that there are that many, of course—have been because I failed to follow my own law.
Sabbagh's Second Law
The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.
Pepperberg's Law of Comparative CognitionGotta start working on mine.
Any behavior exhibited by young children that is taken as evidence of the early emergence of intelligence will, when subsequently exhibited by nonhumans, be interpreted by many humans as a set of simple stimulus-response associations lacking cognitive processing, whereas the stimulus-response explanation will rarely be used to re-interpret the behavior of the child.
via [ Jack Hodgson ]