Sayer's Law: <i>"In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue."</i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_Law" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_Law</a><p>Special case in programming -- "colour of the bikeshed" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality</a>