Cunningham’s Law

The cost to make a movie has little or no correlation to its profitability.

Movies cost so much because of the financial concept known as Parkinson's Law, which means film budgets will continually expand to use the capital available, regardless if the extra cash results in a better product...

• While they often have statutes, common law systems rely more on precedent, judicial decisions that have already been made.  
• Common law systems are adversarial, rather than investigatory, with the judge moderating between two opposing parties.  
• The l...

Zipf's law is a mathematical probability that states that in a given set, the most frequently used data value (or word) is used twice as often as the next most common value. This is true in various statistical sets like income distribution in companies, internet traffic, phone calls received, and...