Named Adages & Maxims Click Quiz

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

The complexity of integrated circuits doubles every 24 months.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

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

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

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

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

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating.

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

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary 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.

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

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

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

The simplest explanation is usually the best one.

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

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

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

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

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

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

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

Science progresses one funeral at a time.

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

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

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