Named Adages & Maxims Click Quiz

80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes.

Every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed.

The simplest explanation is usually the best one.

A person's lack of knowledge and skill in a certain area causes them to overestimate their own competence.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The complexity of integrated circuits doubles every 24 months.

Even a large group of people can collectively recall something that did not actually happen.

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account _____________

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

If something has been around for X years, absent any other information, you can expect it to last for another X years.

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Attempts to hide, remove, or censor information often have the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information.

What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating.

Don’t ask questions you don’t want to know the answer to.

Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

People will believe articles outside their area of expertise even after acknowledging that neighbouring articles in their area of expertise are completely wrong.

It is impossible to parody in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

After recently becoming aware of a specific concept, word, or product, you will notice it more frequently.

Science progresses one funeral at a time.

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.