Cunningham's Law

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Cunningham's Law is very Taoist. It sounds kinda familiar and it follows the whole "use all of the resources you have creatively," concept. As an example of the type, I once heard a Bill Gates quote that went...

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”

...of course, since this quote is too choice to have come from Bill Gates, there is some doubt that it actually did...

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/26/lazy-job/

TL;DR: The source is likely a study in Popular Science Monthly done by Frank B. Gilbreth Sr. in 1920.