Named Adages & Maxims Click Quiz

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

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

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

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

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

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

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

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

The complexity of integrated circuits doubles every 24 months.

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

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

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating.

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

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

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

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

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

The simplest explanation is usually the best one.

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

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

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

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

Science progresses one funeral at a time.