This is a list of "laws" applied to various disciplines. These are often adage

Adage

An adage is a short but memorable saying which holds some important fact of experience that is considered true by many people, or that has gained some credibility through its long use....

s or predictions with the appellation

Appellation

An appellation is a legally defined and protected geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine were grown; other types of food often have appellations as well...

 'Law', although they do not apply in the legal sense, cannot be scientifically tested, or are intended only as rough descriptions (rather than applying in each case). These 'laws' are sometimes called rules of thumb.

See List of legal topics for 'laws' in the legal sense.

See List of scientific laws for falsifiable laws that said to apply universally and literally.

Computer science laws

• Amdahl's law
  Amdahl's law
  Amdahl's law, also known as Amdahl's argument, is named after computer architect Gene Amdahl, and is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only part of the system is improved...
  
   (maximum possible speed-up to a parallel program when adding more computing power)
• Bell's Law of Computer Classes
  Bell's Law of Computer Classes
  Bell's Law of Computer Classes formulated by Gordon Bell in 1972 describes how computer classes form, evolve and may eventually die out. New classes create new applications resulting in new markets and new industries. Bell considers the law to be partially a corollary to Moore's Law which states...
  
   (Corollary to Moore's Law for computer class formation)
• Brooks Law
• Godwin's Law
  Godwin's Law
  Godwin's law is a humorous observation made by Mike Godwin in 1990 that has become an Internet adage...
  
   (Prediction of internet debating patterns)
• Hick's law
  Hick's law
  Hick's Law, named after British psychologist William Edmund Hick, or the Hick–Hyman Law , describes the time it takes for a person to make a decision as a result of the possible choices he or she has. The Hick-Hyman Law assesses cognitive information capacity in choice reaction experiments...
  
  
• Linus's law
  Linus's Law
  There are two statements named Linus's Law: one by Eric S. Raymond concerning software bug detection by a community, and the other by Linus Torvalds about the motivations of programmers.- By Eric Raymond :...
  
   (software development)
• Metcalfe's law
  Metcalfe's law
  Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected usersof the system...
  
  
• Moore's law
  Moore's Law
  Moore's law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware: the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years....
  
   (hardware development)
• Pollack's law
• Reed's law
  Reed's law
  Reed's law is the assertion of David P. Reed that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network....
  
  

Science Fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 author's laws

• Clarke's law
• Sturgeon's law
  Sturgeon's Law
  Sturgeon's revelation, commonly referred to as Sturgeon's law, is an adage derived from quotations by Theodore Sturgeon, an American science fiction author. While Sturgeon coined another adage that he termed "Sturgeon's law", it is his "revelation" that is usually referred to by that term...
  
  
• Three Laws of Robotics
  Three Laws of Robotics
  The Three Laws of Robotics are a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov and later added to. The rules are introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround", although they were foreshadowed in a few earlier stories...
  
   (Isaac Asimov
  Isaac Asimov
  Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...
  
  's fictional set of laws)