Since you are so bright, you probably have at least two you can articulate. Send me two laws based on your empirical work and observations you would not mind having tagged with your name. Stick to science and to those scientific areas where you have expertise. Avoid flippancy. Remember, your name will be attached to your law.

John Brockman does it again.

Since you are so bright, you probably have at least two you can articulate. Send me two laws based on your empirical work and observations you would not mind having tagged with your name. Stick to science and to those scientific areas where you have expertise. Avoid flippancy. Remember, your name will be attached to your law.

I don't have a law, but the typically edge.org collection of the smartest people on the planet is here and they've all got one. Many are fairly enlightening. I feel sooo uncool...

OK, here is a shot:

Given a set of similar products, the one which is least technologically sophisticated will be the most successful in the marketplace.

Since you are so bright, you probably have at least two you can articulate. Send me two laws based on your empirical work and observations you would not mind having tagged with your name. Stick to science and to those scientific areas where you have expertise. Avoid flippancy. Remember, your name will be attached to your law.

There are a number of really insightful "laws" here. Although, this does not contain "Decius's Law":

Given a set of similar products, the one which is least technologically sophisticated will be the most successful in the marketplace.

I can't think of anything to top that right now.

:akoff's laws are my favorite...

] Frames trump facts.
]
] This has an important consequence. Political liberals
] have inherited an assumption from the Enlightenment, that
] The facts will set us free, that if the public is just
] given the facts, they will, being rational beings, reach
] the right conclusion.

Lakoff's Second Law

] Voters vote their identities, not their self-interest.
]
] Because of the way they frame the world, voters vote in
] a way that best accords with their identities and not
] in accord with their self-interest. That is why it is
] of no use for Democrats to keep pointing out that Bush's
] tax cuts go to the top 1 percent, not to most voters.
] If they identify with Bush because they share his
] culture and his world view, they will vote against
] their self-interest.