Can you name the Essential Eponymous Laws? by artandvocab

Law	Named For?
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Do not include any unnecessary elements in a story
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
NOT (P OR Q) = (NOT P) AND (NOT Q), Also NOT (P AND Q) = (NOT P) OR (NOT Q)
There is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with who one can maintain stable social relationships (where an individual knows about each person)
Winner-take-all electoral systems tend to create a 2 party system, while proportional representation tends to create a multiple party system.
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
No consistent system of axioms whose theorems can be listed by an 'effective procedure' (essentially, a computer program) is capable of proving all facts about the natural numbers.
Bad money drives good money out of circulation
Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

Law	Named For?
Under some conditions, it is rational for competitors to make their products as nearly identical as possible.
Few false ideas have more firmly gripped the minds of so many intelligent men than the one that, if they just tried, they could invent a cipher that no one could break
Demand creates its own supply
The value of a (telecommunications or social) network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n^2).
The number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong
A body remains at rest, or keeps moving in a straight line (at a constant velocity), unless acted upon by a net outside force
The acceleration of an object of constant mass is proportional to the net force acting upon it
Whenever one body exerts a force upon a second body, the second body exerts an equal and opposite force upon the first body.
When two explanations are offered for a phenomenon, the simplest full explanation is preferable.
For many phenomena 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes (Also known as the 80/20 Rule).
It is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.
Concepts are not to be multiplied beyond necessity, nor are they to be integrated in disregard of necessity.
When faced with two or more possible beliefs about a situation, a person should purposely select the most empowering belief.
Supply creates its own demand
Any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can't think of how to break it
Demand Changes due to price changes are due to two effects: A substitution effect (change in the good's exchange) and an income effect (consumer's purchasing power decrease)
As the number of minutes on Sporcle increases, the desire to name all of the countries in the world increases, until either you have done so, or perished trying.

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