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* [YAGNI](#yagni)
* [The Fallacies of Distributed Computing](#the-fallacies-of-distributed-computing)
* [The Principle of Least Astonishment](#the-principle-of-least-astonishment)
* [Planck's Principle](#plancks-principle)
* [Reading List](#reading-list)
* [Online Resources](#online-resources)
* [PDF eBook](#pdf-ebook)
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- [Convention Over Configuration](#todo)

### Planck's Principle
[Planck's Principle on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle)

Planck's Principle is often paraphrased as 'Science progresses one funeral at a time'.
It was formulated by Max Planck in his autobiography:
> A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it ...
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> An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.
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>  Max Planck, Scientific autobiography, 1950, p. 33, 97

Thus, scientific and technological development is limited by how long it takes established scientists/researchers/developers to change their minds or leave the field for good. This is an important reason why paradigm shifts are so hard to achieve and spread. It is related to [Clarke's First Law](#clarkes-three-laws).

## Reading List

If you have found these concepts interesting, you may enjoy the following books.
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