Informal laws

• (weak) Linguistic relativity – "Linguistic categories and usage influence thought and decisions."
• Conway's law – "Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." — Melvin E. Conway
• "Drexlers law" – "What we can do depends on what we can make."
• Goodhart's law – Generalization by Marilyn Strathern: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Related

• What we can X depends on what we can Y