Calvin Mooers - Mooers Law

Mooers Law

He coined "Mooers' Law" (not to be confused with Moore's Law) and its corollary in 1959:

An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than for him not to have it.
Where an information retrieval system tends not to be used, a more capable information retrieval system may tend to be used even less.

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